Earning incentive payments

Young partners receiving Jobseeker Support can earn the following incentive payments:

• education incentive of $10 a week
• budgeting incentive of $10 a week
• parenting education incentive of $10 a week

A young partner on Jobseeker Support can earn the education incentive if:

• their service provider or Work and Income 'in-house' service has confirmed to YSSU that since they started receiving their benefit, they have continuously attended and participated in either education, training or work-based learning for at least 6 calendar months

A young partner on Jobseeker Support can earn the budgeting incentive if:

• their service provider or Work and Income 'in-house' service has confirmed to YSSU that since they started receiving their benefit they have attended and participated in discussions on budgeting with the service provider or Work and Income 'in-house' service provider, for at least 3 calendar months

and

• they have attended and completed a budgeting programme (this can have been completed before the client started getting their benefit)

A young partner with a child on Jobseeker Support can earn the parenting education incentive if:

• the service provider or Work and Income 'in-house' service has confirmed that, since they started to receive the benefit, they have regularly engaged with their service provider or Work and Income 'in-house service' for at least 3 calendar months and
• they have participated in and completed a parenting education programme
• each of their dependent children is enrolled with a primary health organisation
• each of their dependent children aged 5 years or under are up-to-date with their Wellchild checks
• each of their dependent children aged 5 years or under attends an approved early childhood education programme or is placed in other suitable childcare during any time the young person is in education, training, work-based learning or part-time work

Note the earliest date the 3 month period can be calculated from is the date the young partner was granted their Jobseeker Support.

For more information see:

• Removing incentive payments
• Examples of actions inconsistent with purpose
• Incentive payments can continue
• Restoring incentive payments
• Obligations

Sometimes a young partner may be able to receive a parenting education incentive payment without meeting the criteria.

For more information see:

• Capacity issues prevent a young partner meeting their parenting obligations