Sole Parent Support : Contents
Client in hospital
A client's Sole Parent Support rate of payment can be different if they are in hospital.
The rate is reduced to the hospital rate when the client has been in hospital for more than 13 weeks (not after receiving a benefit for 13 weeks).
The hospital rate allows for the cost of personal items, which patients are expected to provide for themselves.
Exception
If the client has been in hospital for 13 weeks or more at the commencement date of the benefit, the rate of payment is the hospital rate.
For more information about the hospital rate see:
- Changes and reviews Hospitalisation
Legislation
- Factors affecting benefit: hospitalisation sections 206-207 Social Security Act 2018
- Rates of benefits payable to long-term hospital patients schedule 4, part 12 Social Security Act 2018
