Criteria for Money Management

Clients must meet certain criteria in order for Money Management to be imposed.

A client or their partner can only have Money Management imposed if:

• they have no other current obligation failures (i.e. this is their first obligation failure), and
• they meet with MSD within the five working day notice period, and
• the obligation failure decision is not disputed and overturned, and
• Money Management would be the most appropriate sanction to impose based on their circumstances, and
• they are in active case management or they have dependent children.

Money Management may be imposed on clients who have failed a drug test or a social obligation if they meet the above criteria.

Depending on the activity a client fails, they may be able to recomply within 5 working days of the failure instead of imposing Money Management.

A client may fail more than one obligation on the same day and have multiple failures they need to recomply with.

A client may have Money Management imposed instead of receiving a financial sanction for these failures. Clients will need to complete a recompliance activity for each of their failures before Money Management ends in order to recomply with their obligations.

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