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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 107 ..

suitable long-term housing is clearly not available and that staff are making genuine efforts to obtain such housing as soon as possible. Officers are not eligible for continued TAA unless they can show that the temporary housing they occupy is unsuitable for their longer-term needs, and that suitable accommodation genuinely cannot be found.

Unfurnished housing at the relocation locality may not necessarily be defined as being suitable if staff owned a home at the pre-relocation locality. If unfurnished housing is clearly temporary, and staff provide evidence of sustained and genuine efforts to buy a home at the transfer locality, TAA is payable.

19. Unsuitable accommodation

Furnished housing should not always be regarded as unsuitable accommodation. If officers have lived in rented furnished housing at the pre-relocation locality and obtain furnished housing at the transfer locality, such housing may be regarded as suitable, even though staff may want to buy a home and may regard the rented furnished housing as temporary. In this case no TAA is payable.

Generally, where officers take furnished housing in preference to available unfurnished housing, they may be presumed to have accepted the furnished housing as suitable.

19.1 Settling-in Officers who rented unfurnished housing at the pre-relocation locality are not entitled to TAA except during a settling-in period if suitable unfurnished rented housing can be obtained at the new locality.

20. Classifying accommodation

In determining whether accommodation is furnished or unfurnished for TAA purposes, agencies should not classify accommodation as furnished when only window/floor treatments, built-in furniture and basic furniture (for example, beds, chairs, tables) are provided.

21. Officer responsibility

21.1 Officer to make The onus is on officers receiving TAA to continue to genuine efforts demonstrate that they are unable to secure housing

to find suitable which is suitable for their longer term needs, having

accommodation regard to their reasonable domestic requirements.

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