SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1068A Rate of parenting payment--pension PP (single)

(2) The pension PP (single) rate is worked out in accordance with the rate calculator at the end of this section.

(a) a person has a relationship with a person of the opposite sex (the other person ); and

(b) the relationship between them is a marriage‑like relationship in the Secretary's opinion (formed after the Secretary has had regard to all the circumstances of the relationship, including, in particular, the matters referred to in paragraphs 4(3)(a) to (e) and subsection 4(3A)); and

the person's pension PP (single) rate is not to exceed the benefit PP (partnered) rate which would be payable to the person if the other person were the person's partner.

1068A‑A1 The rate of pension PP (single) is a daily rate. That rate is worked out by dividing the annual rate calculated according to this Rate Calculator by 364 (fortnightly rates are provided for information only).

Method statement

Step 1. Work out the person's maximum basic rate using Module B below.

Step 1A. Work out the amount of pension supplement using Module BA below.

Step 2. Work out the amount per year (if any) of pharmaceutical allowance using Module C below.

Step 3. Work out the amount per year (if any) for rent assistance in accordance with paragraph 1070A(b).

Step 4. Add up the amounts obtained in Steps 1, 1A, 2 and 3: the result is called the maximum payment rate .

Step 5. Apply the ordinary income test using Module E below to work out the income reduction.

Step 6. Take the income reduction away from the maximum payment rate: the result is called the provisional annual payment rate .

Step 7. The rate of pension PP (single) is the amount obtained by:

(a) subtracting from the provisional annual payment rate any special employment advance deduction (see Part 3.16B); and

(b) if there is any amount remaining, subtracting from that amount any advance payment deduction (see Part 3.16A); and

Note 1: If a person's rate is reduced under Step 6, the order in which the reduction is to be made against the components of the maximum payment rate is laid down by section 1210 (maximum basic rate first, then rent assistance, then pharmaceutical allowance).

Note 2: In some circumstances a person may also be qualified for a pharmaceutical allowance under Part 2.22.

Note 3: An amount of remote area allowance is to be added under Step 7 only if the person's provisional payment rate under Step 6 is greater than nil.

1068A‑BA1 The amount of a person's pension supplement depends on the person's maximum basic rate.

(a) calculating the amount (the provisional supplement amount ) that is 4% of the person's 1 July 2000 maximum basic rate; and

(b) rounding off the provisional supplement amount in accordance with points 1068A‑BA4 to 1068A‑BA6.

Note: The pension supplement amount is indexed 6 monthly in line with CPI increases (see sections 1191 to 1194).

1068A‑BA4 If a provisional supplement amount is a multiple of $2.60, the amount of the pension supplement is the provisional supplement amount.

1068A‑BA5 If a provisional supplement amount is not a multiple of $2.60, the amount of the pension supplement is the provisional supplement amount rounded up or down to the nearest multiple of $2.60.

1068A‑BA6 If a provisional supplement amount is not a multiple of $2.60, but is a multiple of $1.30, the amount of the pension supplement is the provisional supplement amount rounded up to the nearest multiple of $2.60.

1068A‑C4(1) A person's advance payment period starts on the day on which the advance pharmaceutical allowance is paid to the person.

(2) The period ends after the number of paydays worked out using the following formula have passed:

Note 1: For the amount paid to a person by way of pharmaceutical allowance see subsections 19A(2) to (7).

(b) the rate of pharmaceutical allowance the person attracts at various times depending on the person's family situation.

Note: The annual amount is adjusted annually in line with CPI increases (see section 1206A).

1068A‑E1 This is how to work out the effect of a person's ordinary income on the person's maximum payment rate:

Method statement

Step 1. Work out the amount of the person's ordinary income on a yearly basis.

Step 2. Work out the person's ordinary income free area (see points 1068A‑E14 to 1068A‑E18 below).

Note: A person's ordinary income free area is the amount of ordinary income that the person can have without any deduction being made from the person's maximum payment rate.

Step 3. Work out whether the person's ordinary income exceeds the person's ordinary income free area.

Step 4. If the person's ordinary income does not exceed the person's ordinary income free area, the person's ordinary income excess is nil.

Step 5. If the person's ordinary income exceeds the person's ordinary income free area, the person's ordinary income excess is the person's ordinary income less the person's ordinary income free area.

Step 6. Use the person's ordinary income excess to work out the person's reduction for ordinary income using points 1068A‑E19 and 1068A‑E20 below.

Note 1: See point 1068A‑A1 (Steps 5 and 6) for the significance of the person's reduction for ordinary income.

Note 2: The application of the ordinary income test is affected by provisions concerning the following:

(b) as a result the person is entitled to a lump sum payment from the person's former employer; and

the payment, or that part, is to be disregarded in working out the ordinary income of the person for the purposes of this Module.

(c) the person is or was entitled to receive a leave payment (whether as a lump sum payment, as a payment that is one of a series of regular payments or otherwise) in respect of a part or all of the leave period;

(b) the person receives a termination payment (whether as a lump sum payment, as a payment that is one of a series of regular payments or otherwise);

1068A‑E6 If the person is covered by point 1068A‑E3, the income maintenance period starts on the first day of the leave period to which the leave payment entitlement relates.

1068A‑E7 If the person is covered by point 1068A‑E4, the income maintenance period starts, subject to point 1068A‑E8, on the day the person is paid the termination payment.

1068A‑E9 If the Secretary is satisfied that a person is in severe financial hardship because the person has incurred unavoidable or reasonable expenditure while an income maintenance period applies to the person, the Secretary may determine that the whole, or any part, of the period does not apply to the person.

Note 1: For in severe financial hardship see subsection 19C(2) (person who is not a member of a couple).

1068A‑E10 For the purposes of points 1068A‑E2 to 1068A‑E9 (inclusive), a person (the first person ) is taken to receive a leave payment or termination payment if the payment is made to another person:

the first person waives or assigns the first person's right to receive the payment.

1068A‑E11 If a person who is covered by point 1068A‑E4 receives a single payment in respect of different kinds of termination payments, then, for the purposes of the application of points 1068A‑E3 to 1068A‑E10 (inclusive), each part of the payment that is in respect of a different kind of termination payment is taken to be a separate payment and the income maintenance period in respect of the single payment is worked out by adding the periods to which the separate payments relate.

"leave payment" includes a payment in respect of sick leave, annual leave, maternity leave and long service leave.

(b) if the payment is a redundancy payment and is calculated as an amount equivalent to an amount of ordinary income that the person would (but for the redundancy) have received from the employment that was terminated--the period for which the person would have received that amount of ordinary income; or

(c) if the payment is a redundancy payment and paragraph (b) does not apply--the period of weeks (rounded down to the nearest whole number) in respect of which the person would have received ordinary income, from the employment that was terminated, of an amount equal to the amount of the redundancy payment if:

(a) a leave payment relating to a person's employment that has been terminated; or

(b) in relation to that entitlement, the person receives a payment of arrears of periodic compensation;

1068A‑E14 A person's ordinary income free area is worked out using Table E. The ordinary income free area is the amount in Column 2 plus the additional amount in Column 4 for each dependent child of the person.

Table E--Ordinary income free area
1	$2,600	$100	$639.60	$24.60

Note 2: The basic free area per year is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1191 to 1194).

unless the person whose rate is being calculated receives carer allowance for the child.

1068A‑E16 The additional free area for a dependent child is reduced by the annual amount of any payment received by the person for or in respect of that particular child. The payments referred to in point 1068A‑E17 do not result in a reduction.

1068A‑E18 Examples of the kinds of payments that result in a reduction under point 1068A‑E16 are:

(a) amounts received from State authorities or benevolent societies in respect of the boarding out of the child; or

"dependent child" , in relation to a person, includes any child of the person who is under 18 and is receiving a youth allowance.

1068A‑F1 An amount by way of remote area allowance is to be added to a person's rate if:

(ii) apart from this point the person's rate would be nil merely because an advance pharmaceutical allowance has been paid to the person under:

1068A‑F2 The rate of remote area allowance payable to a person is worked out using Table F. The rate of remote area allowance is the amount in Column 2 plus the additional corresponding amount in Column 4 for each FTB child, and each regular care child, of the person.

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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1068A