What's new
2 June 2026
Advance Payment of Benefit - dental treatment
Minor changes have been made to the layout of this page to make it clearer that the "essential dental treatment" requirements that apply to a Special Needs Grant for dental treatment do not apply to an Advance Payment of Benefit. See:
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26 May 2026
Counting previous obligations failures
Information about counting previous obligations failures has been amended to reflect the end of the transitional arrangements on 26 May 2026. Transitional content relating to the previous 12-month failure count period has been removed or updated. All applicable obligation failures are now counted over a 24-month period, except for youth activity obligation failures, which continue to be counted for 12 months.
