3.8.9.10 Eligibility for FAA

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for FAA, a recipient must meet the criteria listed in the following table. Where more detail about a criterion is required, the second column indicates where you will find this.

Recipients qualifying for payment as full-time Australian apprentices are not eligible to receive FAA.

Living away from permanent home

A student is regarded as living away from their permanent home for study purposes in ANY of the following cases.

• They are dependent and receive the away from home rate of YA.
• They are partnered independent students who live away from their partner (1.1.P.70) for study purposes.
• They are sole parent students who live away from their dependent children (1.1.D.70) for study purposes.
• They are full-time students in an approved course (1.1.A.210) studying externally, at an Australian institution in Australia, who have to travel to the institution for a compulsory residential component of the course.

Exception: FAA is not paid if travel is undertaken for a practical component of the course away from the institution itself.

Example: Field excursions, practical teaching sessions, periods of hospital residence.

Sole parent living away from dependent child

FAA is paid to a sole parent who lives away from a dependent child, if the child remains in the permanent home.

A dependent child for this purpose is any child attracting family assistance or PPS and also includes dependent full-time students of the sole parent.

Exception: Dependent young people who are not full-time students are NOT included.

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.8.9.20 FAA Entitlement, 3.8.9.40 Change in Circumstances during the Study Year for FAA

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Last reviewed: 3 September 2007