Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 84

84. If:

   (a)  a person is qualified for payments under this Subdivision in relation
        to the death of the person's partner; and

   (b)  the first available bereavement adjustment payday occurs before the
        end of the bereavement period; there is payable to the person as a
        lump sum an amount worked out using the lump sum calculator at the end
        of this section.
LUMP SUM CALCULATOR This is how to work out the amount of the lump sum:
Method statement Step 1. Add up:

   (a)  the amount that, if the person's partner had not died, would have been
        payable to the person on the pension payday immediately before the
        first available bereavement adjustment payday; and

   (b)  the amount that, if the partner had not payday immediately before the
        first available bereavement adjustment payday; the result is called
        the combined pensioner couple rate. Step 2. Work out the amount that,
        but for section 85, would have been payable to the person on the
        pension payday immediately before the first available bereavement
        adjustment payday: the result is called the person's individual rate.
        Step 3. Take the person's individual rate away from the combined
        pensioner couple rate: the result is called the partner's instalment
        component. Step 4. Work out the number of pension paydays in the
        bereavement lump sum period. Step 5. Multiply the partner's instalment
        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.