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7.2. Student Start‑up Scholarship Payment

Claim not required 7.2.1 A claim is not required for a student start‑up scholarship payment. Grant of scholarship 7.2.2 The Commission may grant a student start‑up scholarship payment to an eligible child who is qualified for one. Circumstances in which Person is Qualified for Student Start‑up Scholarship Payment 7.2.3 An eligible child is qualified for a student start‑up scholarship payment if at a time (the qualification time): (a) the person is eligible for an education allowance for a tertiary student under the Scheme, the allowance is payable to the person and the person is receiving it; and (b) the person is receiving the education allowance because the person is undertaking an approved scholarship course; and (c) the Commission is satisfied that in the period of 35 days starting immediately after the qualification time, the person proposes to start to undertake the course or to continue to undertake the course; and (d) the Commission is satisfied that the person is not likely to receive the amount or value of a disqualifying education costs scholarship in the period of 6 months starting immediately after the qualification time. Circumstances in which Person is Not Qualified for Student Start‑up Scholarship Payment 7.2.4 A person is not qualified for a student start‑up scholarship payment if one or more of the following circumstances apply to the person in the period of 6 months (or shorter period determined by the Commission) ending immediately before the person’s qualification time: (a) the person has qualified for a student start‑up scholarship payment under the Scheme; or (b) the person has qualified for a payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme known as an “ABSTUDY student start‑up scholarship payment”; or (c) the person has qualified for a payment known as a “student start‑up scholarship payment ” under Part 2.11B of the Social Security Act 1991 (in force from time to time); or (d) the person has qualified for a payment known as a “student start‑up scholarship payment” under the scheme made under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 known as the Veterans’ Children Education Scheme; or (e) the person has received the amount or value of a disqualifying education costs scholarship or the person was entitled to the amount or value of such a scholarship but has not received the full entitlement only because the scholarship was suspended. Commission may determine period less than 6 months 7.2.5 For 7.2.4, the Commission may determine a period in relation to a person that is at least 2 months but less than 6 months if the Commission considers that the determination would enable the person to qualify for a student start‑up scholarship payment on or near the day on which the approved scholarship course concerned started or starts. 7.2.6 For 7.2.5, the Commission must not make a determination if the effect of the determination would be to enable the person to receive more than 2 student start‑up scholarship payments in a Calendar year.