Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 section 212

Disqualification

Section 212 sets out the grounds on which a person may be disqualified from receiving disability allowance for failing to comply with specified requirements, and provides protection from disqualification for those engaged in prescribed employment or training.

• Regulations may disqualify a person from disability allowance if they fail, without good cause, to comply with specified requirements such as attending medical examinations, following medical advice, avoiding behaviour that hinders recovery, or making themselves available to meet departmental officers or medical assessors.
• The list of requirements in the regulations is not exhaustive — other conditions may also be specified.
• A person cannot be disqualified from disability allowance while participating in prescribed classes of employment or training, subject to whatever circumstances and conditions may be set down in the regulations.
• Amendments in 2007 and 2015 respectively added the employment and training safeguard and broadened compliance obligations to include availability for meetings with departmental officers or medical assessors.