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MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 198 What is a Special Rate Disability Pension ?

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 198

What is a Special Rate Disability Pension ?

  (1)   A Special Rate Disability Pension is an ongoing weekly payment (other than a payment under the Return to Work Scheme in section   210) that can be paid to certain persons instead of compensation worked out under Division   2 of Part   4.

  (2)   The maximum weekly amount of a Special Rate Disability Pension is one half of the fortnightly rate at which a pension is payable from time to time under section   24 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 .