Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Siewert. The rationale at the moment is : do you have a job to go to? For t he persons that you are referring to, on 20 March 2020 there will be some who go over that date , and they'll be exempt from mutual obligation requirements if they meet the incapacitated exemption rule. That's the first cohort. Then there are those , obviously , who are new entrants , and they go straight to jobseeker payment , and they also meet the incapacitated exemption rules. In relation to those rules, it is then about incapacity as opposed to : do you have a job to go to?