Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 90

90. 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 age pension 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 89 applies in working out the amount of within the bereavement
rate continuation period. Step 2. Work out the instalment of age pension that
would have been payable to the person on the payday immediately before the
first available bereavement adjustment payday if the person's age pension rate
were not calculated under section 89: 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.