Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 509

509. If:

   (a)  a person is qualified for payments under this Subdivision in relation
        to the death of a dependent child; and

   (b)  the first available bereavement adjustment payday occurs before the
        end of the bereavement period; and

   (c)  the person was, immediately before the child died, receiving family
        allowance for the child; a lump sum (worked out using the lump sum
        calculator at the end of this section) is payable to the person. Note:
        if the person qualified for payments under this Subdivision was not
        receiving family allowance in respect of the dependent child and
        somebody else was receiving family allowance in respect of the
        dependent child, a corresponding lump sum may be payable to the other
        person under section 890.
LUMP SUM CALCULATOR This is how to work out the amount of the lump sum:
Method statement Step 1. Work out the instalment of rehabilitation allowance
payable to the person on the pension payday immediately before the first
available bereavement adjustment payday: the result is called the continued
rate.
Note: section 508 applies in working out the amount of this instalment because
the payday on which it is payable is within the bereavement rate continuation
period. Step 2. Work out the instalment of rehabilitation allowance that would
have been payable to the person on the payday immediately before the first
available bereavement adjustment payday if the person's rehabilitation
allowance rate were not calculated under section 508: the result is called the
new rate. Step 3. Take the new rate away from the continued rate: the result
is called the deceased child component. Step 4. Work out the number of
pension paydays in the bereavement lump sum period. Step 5. Multiply the
deceased child component by the number of pension paydays in the bereavement
lump sum period: the result is the amount of the lump sum payable to the
person under this section.