Supported Living Payment (health condition) - partners income

For clients with a partner (with or without dependent children) when the partner is:

• granted any of the main benefits in their own right or
• not entitled to get a benefit because of voluntary unemployment or misconduct or
• on strike or
• not entitled to get a benefit because of a sanction

In these instances income is charged annually at the following rates:

• 15 cents is taken from the half-couple rate of benefit for each $1.00 of their combined income earned over $8,320 per year, but not more than $13,000 per year
• 35 cents for each $1.00 of income over $13,000 per year