Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator, code N

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for clients who report nil income (CODE 17) in Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN.

This question establishes whether clients may have applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but are still awaiting their first payment.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected four times, for the following points in time:

• one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the date of presentation
• at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY).

Only one permissible value is selected in each case.

This collection records a response of Don't Know (CODE 99), which is equivalent to the code Not stated/Inadequately described (CODE 9) in the Standard.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for clients who report nil income (CODE 17) in Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN.

This question establishes whether clients may have applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but are still awaiting their first payment.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected four times, for the following points in time:

• one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the date of presentation
• at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY).

Only one permissible value is selected in each case.

This collection records a response of Don't Know (CODE 99), which is equivalent to the code Not stated/Inadequately described (CODE 9) in the Standard.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for clients who report nil income (CODE 17) in Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN.

This question establishes whether clients may have applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but are still awaiting their first payment.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected four times, for the following points in time:

• one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the date of presentation
• at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY).

Only one permissible value is selected in each case.

This collection records a response of Don't Know (CODE 99), which is equivalent to the code Not stated/Inadequately described (CODE 9) in the Standard.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for clients who report nil income (Code 17) in Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN.

This question establishes whether clients may have applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but are still awaiting their first payment.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected four times, for the following points in time:

• one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the date of presentation
• at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY)
• at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY).

Only one permissible value is selected in each case.

This collection records a response of Don't Know (Code 99), which is equivalent to the code Not stated/Inadequately described (Code 9) in the Standard.