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MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION (CONSEQUENTIAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2004 - SECT 14

Offsetting VEA and DRCA payments against a Special Rate Disability Pension

  (1)   For the purposes of section   204 of the MRCA, the maximum weekly amount of a Special Rate Disability Pension that could be payable to a person, at a time, must also be reduced by one half of the fortnightly rate at which any pension because of paragraph   13(1)(b) or 70(1)(b) of the VEA is payable to the person at that time.

  (2)   For the purposes of section   204 of the MRCA, the maximum weekly amount of a Special Rate Disability Pension that could be payable to a person must also be reduced by the sum of any previous payments of a lump sum to the person under section   24, 25 or 27 of the DRCA , converted to a weekly amount in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of paragraph   24(3)(b) of this Act.

 



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