18Additional provisions regarding claim for special employment advance

18  Additional provisions regarding claim for special employment advance  (1) A claim for special employment advance must specify the amount of special employment advance sought.  (2) Subject to subsection (3), if a claim based on the effect of the unreceived income on the claimant’s special employment advance qualifying entitlement is lodged before the first day for which the entitlement is not payable or is reduced as a result of the claimant, or the claimant’s partner, having earned the income, the claim is taken to have been made on that day.  (a) the claimant’s special employment advance qualifying entitlement referred to in subsection (2) is an entitlement in respect of which the Secretary has determined that this subsection applies; and  (b) the claim is lodged before the day referred to in subsection (2); the Secretary may treat the claim as having been made on a day earlier than the day referred to in subsection (2) that the Secretary considers appropriate having regard to the kind of entitlement concerned.  (4) A claim based on the need for financial assistance from the Commonwealth to take up offered employment must set out:  (a) particulars (including the duration) of the employment; and  (b) the way in which the financial assistance is to be expended to enable the claimant to take up the employment.