SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 98 Automatic rate reduction--partner starting to receive pension or benefit
SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 98
Automatic rate reduction--partner starting to receive pension or benefit(1) Subject to subsection (2), if:
(a) a person is receiving a social security payment; and
(b) the person's partner starts to receive:
(i) a social security pension or benefit; or
(ii) a service pension, income support supplement or a veteran payment; and
(c) the person's social security payment rate is reduced because of the partner's receipt of the pension, benefit, supplement or payment;
the social security payment becomes payable to the person at the reduced rate on the day on which the partner starts to receive the pension, benefit, supplement or payment.
(a) a person is receiving a social security payment; and
(b) the person's partner starts to receive:
(i) a social security pension or benefit; or
(ii) a service pension or a veteran payment; and
(c) because the partner starts to receive that pension, benefit or payment, the person's working credit balance or student income bank balance is reduced to nil; and
(d) either because of the reduction of the balance to nil or because of the balance having already been reduced to nil--the person's social security payment rate is to be reduced;
the social security payment becomes payable to the person at the reduced rate on:
(e) if the rate reduction is attributable to the reduction of the balance to nil--the day on which the balance was so reduced; and
(f) if the rate reduction is attributable to the balance having
already been reduced to nil--the first day on which the opening balance was
nil.