Assessing employment pay periods

Student Allowance is paid for a Monday to Sunday period. Employment earnings that are for the period Monday to Sunday should be assessed against the Student Allowance for that week.

Fortnightly earning periods require assessment as follows:

• where the earnings for each individual week can be identified those earnings should be assessed to the week earned
• where the earnings for each individual week cannot be identified (e.g. the employer does not hold a weekly breakdown of earnings), then the earnings are averaged (divided equally) over the fortnight

Earning periods that cross calendar weeks should be assessed as follows:

• where the weekly hours of earnings are identifiable, those earnings should be assigned to the week earned
• where the weekly hours of work and hourly/daily payment cannot be identified then the earnings are divided by the number of days in the pay period and charged to each Student Allowance week appropriately