SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 177 Assessment of rate of social security payment

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 177

    If, on AAT first review, the AAT sets aside a decision (other than an employment pathway plan decision) and substitutes for it a decision that a person is entitled to a social security payment, the AAT must:

  (a)   assess the rate at which the social security payment is to be paid to the person; or

  (b)   ask one of the following persons to assess the rate at which the social security payment is to be paid:

  (i)   for a decision in relation to a pension bonus or pension bonus bereavement payment--the Secretary;

  (ii)   for other decisions--the Secretary or the Chief Executive Centrelink, as the case requires.