Division 2 Barriers to Full Employment Household units & Expected to Work or Working Household units, Budgetary Requirements, Section 28 Sponsored immigrants
If a member of a barriers to full employment household unit or an expected to work or working household unit is a sponsored immigrant who is eligible to receive income support and benefits,
the assets, liquid assets and financial resources of the sponsor are to be considered as belonging to an eligible adult member of the household unit for the purpose of sections 20 to 23,
section 23(5) does not apply to the financial resources of the sponsor’s household unit, and
the budgetary requirements include an equivalent amount for the sponsor’s household unit for the purpose of section 22.
Subsection (1) does not apply if, in the opinion of the Director, the sponsored immigrant has been abused or abandoned by the sponsor.