SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 179 Automatic rate reduction - failure to inform Department of payment for remunerative work where earnings credit account balance available

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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 179

Automatic rate reduction - failure to inform Department of payment for remunerative work where earnings credit account balance available

179. If:

   (a)  a person who is receiving a wife pension is given a notice under
        section 172; and

   (b)  the notice requires the person to inform the Department of income for
        remunerative work undertaken by the person; and

   (c)  the person fails to notify the Department of income of that kind in
        accordance with the notice; and

   (d)  the person has an earnings credit account balance for the purposes of
        Division 4 of Part 3.10; the pension becomes payable to the person at
        the reduced rate from the first pension payday after the day on which
        the person's earnings credit account balance is reduced to nil.

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