Obligations

Supported Living Payment clients and partners (if any) have the following obligations:

• they must advise of any change in circumstances that affect their entitlement or rate of benefit payable
• if they have dependent children, take all reasonable steps to meet social obligations that apply for each dependent child in their care
• if required, to undertake and pass a pre-employment or pre-course drug test
• if required, participate in a Work Ability Assessment
• if required, work with a contracted service provider
• advise Work and Income if they are intending to travel overseas, before they depart

Primary clients getting Supported Living Payment may have work preparation obligations where they have been assessed as having capacity to prepare for work.

For more information see:

• Assessing capacity for work preparation obligation - primary client

Partners of clients getting Supported Living Payment either have work or work preparation obligations (including drug test work obligations), depending on whether they have children (or not), the age of their youngest dependent child and whether they qualify for an exemption.

For more information see:

• Work or work preparation obligations
• Drug test obligations

Young partners (aged 16 to 19 years old) of clients getting Supported Living Payment have youth activity obligations and not work or work preparation obligations if they are:

• aged 16 or 17 years old without dependent children or
• aged 16 to 19 years old with a dependent child or children and
• married to, or in a civil union or in a de facto relationship with a person getting Supported Living Payment.

For more information see:

• Youth activity obligations

Note social obligations do not apply to young partners of Supported Living Payment as some of their youth activity obligations are similar to social obligations.