Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 769

769. If:

   (a)  a person is receiving special benefit; and

   (b)  a dependent child of the person dies; and

   (c)  the person's benefit rate would, if the person had been receiving
        unemployment benefit immediately before the child died, have included:

   (i)  a dependent child add-on in respect of the child; or

   (ii) guardian allowance in respect of the child; the person is qualified
        for payments under this Division to cover the bereavement period. Note
        1: section 770 provides for maximum special benefit rate payable to
        the person, up to the first available bereavement adjustment payday,
        to be the rate at which it would have been paid if the child had not
        died but were disregarded for the purposes of working out the person's
        income test free areas. Note 2: section 771 provides for the
        possibility of a lump sum being paid to the person if the person was
        receiving family allowance for the child and the first available
        bereavement adjustment payday occurs before the end of the bereavement
        period: the maximum for the lump sum is the difference, over the
        bereavement lump sum period, between the person's new special benefit
        rate and the rate at which the benefit would have been paid if the
        child had not died but were disregarded for the purposes of working
        out the person's income test free areas. Note 3: the additional
        payments preserved by this Division are:
. child add-on;
. guardian allowance;
. additional rent assistance;
. additional remote area allowance.