Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1061JU

             (1)  Subject to subsection (2), the amount of a crisis payment payable to a person is half the fortnightly amount at the maximum basic rate of the social security pension or social security benefit that is payable to the person.

             (2)  If a person is a CDEP Scheme participant, the amount of a crisis payment payable to the person is half the fortnightly amount at the maximum basic rate of the social security pension or social security benefit that the person is taken to be receiving under section 1188H.

Note:          For CDEP Scheme participant see section 1188B.

             (3)  If, under section 1188H, the person is taken to be receiving more than one social security pension or social security benefit, the person is taken, for the purposes of subsection (2), to be receiving the pension or benefit with the higher maximum basic rate.

             (4)  In this section:

"maximum basic rate" , in relation to each of the following social security payments, means (unless otherwise stated below) the rate worked out at Module B of the relevant Rate Calculator:

                     (a)  for the following pensions if the recipient is not blind:

                              (i)  age pension;

                             (ii)  disability support pension (recipient has turned 21, or is under 21 and has one or more dependent children);

                            (iii)  carer pension;

                            (iv)  wife pension;

                            the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1064; or

                     (b)  for age pension and disability support pension (recipient has turned 21, or is under 21 and has one or more dependent children) if the recipient is blind--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1065; or

                     (c)  for widow B pension--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1066; or

                     (d)  for disability support pension if the recipient is under 21, is not blind and does not have any dependent children--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1066A; or

                     (e)  for disability support pension if the recipient is under 21, is blind and does not have any dependent children--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1066B; or

                      (f)  for the following allowances:

                              (i)  newstart allowance;

                             (ii)  widow allowance;

                            (iii)  sickness allowance;

                            (iv)  partner allowance;

                             (v)  mature age allowance granted under Part 2.12B;

                            the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1068; or

                     (g)  for mature age allowance granted under Part 2.12A--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1064; or

                     (h)  for a pension PP (single)--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1068A; or

                      (i)  for benefit PP (partnered)--Module C of the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1068B; or

                      (j)  for mature age partner allowance--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1064; or

                     (k)  for special benefit--section 746; or

                      (l)  for youth allowance--the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1067G; or

                    (m)  for austudy payment--Step 3 of the Method statement in Module A of the Rate Calculator at the end of section 1067L.

Note:          For dependent child see section 5.