Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts1 Section 3 (index of definitions)
| maximum
basic component of parenting payment | 18 |
| PP (partnered) | 18 |
| seasonal work
non-benefit period | 16A(1) |
| subject to a seasonal work non-benefit period |
16A(1) |
2 Paragraph 4(6A)(f)
3 Subsection 4(6A) (after table item 1)
| 1A | section 500Q | Parenting payment assets test |
4 Subsections 7(6) and 7(6AA)
5 Subsection 8(1) (definition of ordinary income , note 4)
6 Paragraph 8(8)(zm)
7 Paragraph 12C(5)(ba)
8 Subsection 16A(1) (definition of seasonal work non-benefit period )
9 Subsection 16A(1) (definition of subject to a seasonal work non-benefit period )
10 Subsection 16A(6) (method statement, step 5)
11 Subsection 16A(6) (method statement, step 6)
Step 6. Divide the couple's combined earnings by twice the amount of the relevant AWOTE for the calendar year in which the claim was lodged. The result is called the couple's AWOTE weeks and represents the number of weeks (including any part of a week) that 2 persons, each paid at a rate equal to the relevant AWOTE for that calendar year, would have to work to earn together an amount equal to the couple's combined earnings.
12 Subsection 16A(7) (method statement, step 4)
13 Subsection 16A(7) (method statement, step 7)
Step 7. Divide the couple's combined earnings by twice the amount of the relevant AWOTE for the calendar year in which the claim was lodged. The result is called the couple's AWOTE weeks and represents the number of weeks (including any part of a week) that 2 persons, each paid at a rate equal to the relevant AWOTE for that calendar year, would have to work to earn together an amount equal to the couple's combined earnings.
14 Subsections 16A(12) and (13)
15 Section 18 (definition of benefit PP (partnered) )
16 Section 18 (definition of maximum basic component of parenting payment ) 17 Section 18 (definition of non-benefit PP
(partnered) )
18 Section 18 (paragraph (b) of the definition of parenting payment )
19 Section 18 (definition of PP (partnered) ) 20
Paragraph 19C(8)(e)
21 Paragraph 500I(1)(e) 22 Subsection 500Q(1)
23 Subsection 500Q(2) 24 Subsection 500Q(2) (table heading) 25
At the end of section 500Q
Note 2: For homeowner see subsection 11(4).
Note 3: If item 1 applies to a person, the value of all the assets of the
person's partner are to be taken as being included in the value of the
person's assets (see subsection (4)). If item 2 applies to a person, the value
of the person's assets is only half the combined value of the person's assets
and the assets of the person's partner (see subsection (5)).
Note 4: If benefit PP (partnered) is not payable to a person because of the
value of the person's assets, the person may be able to take advantage of
provisions dealing with financial hardship (see sections 1131 and 1132).
Note 5: The assets value limits of item 2 are indexed annually in line with
CPI increases (see sections 1191 to 1194).
Note 6: The item 1 assets value limits are adjusted annually so that they are
twice the corresponding item 2 limits (see subsections 1204(2) and (3)).
26 Section 500S
Note 2: For social security pension and social security benefit see subsection
23(1).
Note 3: For the day on which parenting payment ceases to be payable see
section 508.
27 Section 500T 28 Section 500U 29
At the end of section 500V
30 Subsection 500Z(2) (note 2) 31 Paragraph 503(b) 32 Subsection 504A(3) 33 Subsection 504F(5) (note) 34
Paragraph 504F(5)(b)
35 Section 508
36 Section 508A 37 Paragraph 508B(c)
38 Sections 509D and 509E 39 Paragraph 512(1)(a) 40 Subsection 512(1) (note) 41 Section 512A 42 Paragraph
729(2)(bb) 43
Subsection 900F(1) 44 Paragraph 900F(2)(b) 45 Paragraph 1061ED(3)(b) 46 Subsection 1068A(3) 47 Subsection 1068B(1) 48 Subsection 1068B(2) 49 Subsections
1068B(3) and (4) 50 Section 1068B (Rate Calculator,
heading) 51 Section 1068B (PP (Partnered) Rate Calculator, Module A) Module A—Overall rate calculation process
Method of calculating rate—general
Method of calculating rate for person who is not a partner of a
non-independent YA recipient
Method statement Step 1. Work out the person's maximum basic rate using
Module C below. (a) the
provisional payment rate; and plus any amount by
way of remote area allowance that, under Module G, is to be added to
the person's rate of benefit PP (partnered).
Note 2: 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 1207 (maximum basic rate first, then rent assistance).
Method of calculating rate for partner of a non-independent YA recipient
Method statement Step 1. Work out the person's maximum basic rate using
Module C below. (a) the provisional payment rate; and plus any amount by
way of remote area allowance that, under Module G, is to be added to
the person's rate of benefit PP (partnered).
Note 2: 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 1207 (maximum basic rate first, then rent assistance).
52 Section 1068B (PP (Partnered) Rate Calculator, Module B) 53 Point 1068B-C1 54 Point 1068B-C2
55 Point 1068B-D1 56 Point 1068B-D1 (method statement, step 4) 57 Point 1068B-D1 (method
statement, step 8) 58 Point
1068B-D1 (method statement, step 9) 59 Point 1068B-D1 (note 2) 60 Point
1068B-D2 (note) 61 Point 1068B-D3 62
Paragraph 1068B-D23(a) 63 Point 1068B-D24 64 Points 1068B-D25 and
1068B-D26 65 Point 1068B-D29 (note) 66
Point 1068B-D32 67 Point 1068B-E1 68 Paragraph 1068B-E1(a) 69
Subpoint 1068B-E5(2) (definition of pharmaceutical allowance rate )
70 Point 1068B-F1 71 Paragraph 1068B-F1(a) 72 Point 1068B-G1
73 Paragraph 1068B-G1(a) 74 Section 1072 (note 1) 75
Paragraphs 1106(2)(a) and (b) 76
Subsection 1109(1A) 77 Subsection
1109(1B) 78 Paragraphs 1123(2)(a) and
(b) 79 Subsection 1131(2A) 80 Subsection 1164(7) 81 Subsection
1165(2) 82
Subsection 1165(2AA)
83 Subsection 1165(2B) 84 Subsection 1166(2) 85 Paragraph 1166(4A)(c) 86
Subsection 1166(4B) 87 Subsection 1168(1) 88 Subsection 1168(4) 89 Paragraphs 1168(4)(b),
(c) and (d) 90 Subsection 1168(4) 91 Subsection 1168(5) 92 Subsection 1168(5) (definition of partner's excess
compensation rate ) 93 Subsection 1168(5) (note
1) 94
Subsection 1168(6) 95 Subsection 1168(7) 96 Subsection 1170(4A) 97 Subsection 1170(4B) 98
Subsection 1174(6AA) 99 Subsection 1179(6AA) 100 Section 1190 (table item 2, column 2) 101 Section 1190 (table item 2, column 4) 102
Section 1190 (table item 18, column 2) 103
Section 1190 (table item 18, column 4) 104 Section 1190 (table
item 18A, column 2) 105 Section 1190 (table
item 18A, column 4) 106 Section 1190 (table item 30,
column 2) 107 Section 1190 (table item 30, column
4) 108 Section 1190 (table item
31, column 2) 109 Section 1190 (table item 31,
column 4) 110 Section 1190 (table item
32, column 2) 111 Section 1190 (table item 32,
column 4) 112 Section 1190 (table item
33, column 2) 113 Section 1190 (table item 33,
column 4) 114 Section 1190 (table item
47, column 4) 115 Section 1190 (table item 49, column 4) 116 Section 1190 (table item 49D, column 4) 117 Section 1190 (table item 49K) 118 Section
1191 (table item 33B) 119 Subsection 1207(2) (table item
relating to PP (Partnered) Rate Calculator, column 1) 120
Paragraph 1224E(1)(d) 121 Paragraph 1242(2)(d) 122
Paragraph 1252(2)(d) benefit PP (partnered) means parenting payment whose rate is
worked out under the Benefit PP (Partnered) Rate Calculator in section 1068B.
non-benefit PP (partnered)
means non-benefit PP (partnered) under this Act as in force immediately before
the commencement of the A New Tax
System (Family Assistance) (Consequential and Related Measures) Act (No. 1)
1999 .
Table—Assets value limits for person who is
not a member of a couple
Table—Assets value limits for person who is a member of a couple Column
1
Item Column 2
Person's situation Column 3
Assets value limit Column 3A
Either person or partner homeowner Column 3B
Neither person nor
partner homeowner 1 Person is partnered (partner getting neither pension
nor benefit) $178,500 $268,500 2 Person is partnered (partner getting
pension or benefit) $89,250 $134,250
parenting payment is not payable to the person.
If:
parenting payment ceases to be payable to the person immediately before the
day on which the other social security pension, the benefit or the service
pension becomes payable to the person.
1068B-A1 The rate of benefit PP
(partnered) is a daily rate. That rate is worked out by dividing the
fortnightly rate calculated according to this Rate Calculator by 14. There are
2 ways of working out the fortnightly rate:
1068B-A2 If a person is not the partner of a
non-independent YA recipient, the fortnightly rate of benefit PP (partnered)
for the person is worked out as follows:
Step 2. Work out the amount per fortnight (if any) of rent
assistance using Module F below.
Step 3. Work out the amount per fortnight
(if any) of pharmaceutical allowance using Module E below.
Step 4. Add up the
amounts obtained in steps 1 to 3: the result is called the maximum payment
rate.
Step 5. Apply the income test using Module D below to work out the
person's income reduction.
Step 6. Take the income reduction away from the
maximum payment rate: the result is called the provisional payment rate .
Step 7. The rate of benefit PP (partnered) is the difference between:
(b) any advance payment deduction (see Part 3.16A);
1068B-A3 If a person is the partner of a non-independent YA recipient, the
fortnightly rate of benefit PP (partnered) for the person is worked out as
follows:
Step 2. Work out the amount per fortnight (if any) of rent
assistance using Module F below.
Step 3. Work out the amount per fortnight
(if any) of pharmaceutical allowance using Module E below.
Step 4. Add up the
amounts obtained in steps 1 to 3: the result is called the maximum payment
rate .
Step 5. Apply the income test using Module E of the Rate Calculator in
section 1068A to work out the person's income reduction.
Step 6. Take the
income reduction away from the maximum payment rate: the rate is called the
provisional payment rate .
Step 7. The rate of benefit is the difference
between:
(b) any advance payment deduction (see Part 3.16A); pharmaceutical allowance rate is the fortnightly
amount of pharmaceutical allowance which would be included in the person's
maximum payment rate in working out the benefit PP (partnered) instalment for
the day on which the advance is paid if parenting payment were payable to the
person and pharmaceutical allowance were to be included in the person's
maximum payment rate. (The person's maximum payment rate is the maximum
payment rate at step 4 of whichever of the method statements in points
1068B-A2 and 1068B-A3 is applicable to the person.)
An amount by way of remote area allowance is to be added in step 7 of the
method statements in points 1068B-A2 and 1068B-A3 to a person's rate of
benefit PP (partnered) if:
Benefit PP (partnered) Rate Calculator (section 1068B
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