Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 No. 46, 1991 - SECT 949

949. If:

   (a)  a person is receiving family allowance supplement; and

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

   (c)  immediately before the child died, the person's family allowance
        supplement rate included a FAS child rate for the child; the person is
        qualified for payments under this Division to cover the bereavement
        period. Note 1: section 950 provides for family allowance supplement
        to be paid to the person, up to the first available bereavement
        adjustment payday, at 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 taxable income free area. Note 2: section 951
        provides for a lump sum to be 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 lump sum represents the difference, over the bereavement
        lump sum period, between the person's new family allowance supplement
        rate and the rate at which the supplement would have been paid if the
        child had not died but were disregarded for the purposes of working
        out the person's taxable income free areas. Note 3: the additional
        payments preserved by this Division are:
. FAS child rate;
. additional rent assistance.