Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsQualifying for carer supplement
(1) A person (the qualified person ) is qualified for carer supplement for a year if the person was or is paid an instalment (the qualifying instalment ) of carer allowance, carer payment or carer service pension in respect of a period that includes 1 July in the year.
Note: There may be more than one qualifying instalment for carer supplement for a year. For example, if a person is paid both an instalment of carer allowance and an instalment of carer payment in respect of a period including 1 July in the year, both instalments are qualifying instalments for carer supplement for the year for the person.
Amount of carer supplement
(2) The amount of carer supplement for the qualified person for the year is the total worked out in accordance with the table (taking account of every relevant item of the table):
Amount of carer supplement | ||
Item | If: | Include this amount in the total: |
1 | The qualifying instalment is of carer allowance | The amount worked out under subsection (3) for each eligible care receiver (see subsections (4) and (5)) |
2 | The qualifying instalment is of carer payment | $600 |
3 | The qualifying instalment is of carer service pension | $600 |
5 | Both of the following apply: (a) the qualifying instalment is of carer allowance; (b) the qualified person was or is also paid an instalment of partner service pension under the Veterans' Entitlements Act in respect of a period that includes the day described in subsection (1) for the year | $600 |
Amount for eligible care receiver
(3) The amount for an eligible care receiver is:
(a) $600; or
(b) if the rate at which the qualifying instalment was paid takes account of a determination under subsection 981(1) of a particular share (being a percentage or proportion) in relation to the eligible care receiver--that share of $600.
Example 1: Assume that:
(a) the qualified person qualifies for carer supplement for 2010 because he or she is paid a qualifying instalment of carer allowance relating to 3 eligible care receivers; and
(b) the rate of the qualifying instalment takes account of a determination under subsection 981(1) of a half share in relation to one of those eligible care receivers; and
(c) the qualified person is also paid an instalment of partner service pension for a period including 1 July 2010.
The amount of carer supplement for the qualified person for 2010 is $2,100, made up of $600 each for 2 of the eligible care receivers, $300 (which is half of $600) for the eligible care receiver to whom the half - share determination relates and $600 relating to the partner service pension.
Example 2: Assume that the qualified person qualifies for carer supplement for 2011 because he or she is paid a qualifying instalment of carer allowance relating to one eligible care receiver and also because the qualifying person is paid a qualifying instalment of carer payment.
The amount of carer supplement for the qualified person for 2011 is $1,200, made up of $600 relating to carer allowance relating to the eligible care receiver and $600 relating to carer payment.
Effect of nil rates of carer payment, partner service pension and carer service pension
(3A) If:
(a) a person:
(i) is not paid an instalment of carer payment under this Act in respect of a period that includes 1 July in a year because the person's rate of that payment in respect of that period is nil; or
(ii) is not paid an instalment of partner service pension or carer service pension under the Veterans' Entitlements Act in respect of a period that includes 1 July in a year because the person's rate of that pension in respect of that period is nil; and
(b) the person's rate of that payment or pension in respect of that period is worked out having regard to an income test module of a rate calculator in this Act or the Veterans' Entitlements Act; and
(c) either:
(i) if subparagraph (a)(i) applies--the person has employment income (within the meaning of this Act) in respect of that period; or
(ii) if subparagraph (a)(ii) applies--the person has employment income (within the meaning of section 46AB of the Veterans' Entitlements Act) in respect of that period; and
(d) the person would have been paid an instalment of that payment or pension in respect of that period if all of the person's income, and all of the person's partner's income (if any), in respect of that period were disregarded;
the person is taken, for the purposes of this section, to have been paid an instalment of that payment or pension in respect of that period.
Definition of eligible care receiver
(4) Each person to whose care a qualifying instalment of carer allowance relates is an eligible care receiver in relation to the qualified person.
(5) However, if subsection 953(2) applies in relation to a qualifying instalment, the 2 disabled children to whom the instalment relates are to be treated as if they were a single eligible care receiver in relation to the qualified person.
Definition of carer service pension
(6) In this section:
"carer service pension" means carer service pension that is payable because of subclause 8(2) or (4) of Schedule 5 to the Veterans' Entitlements Act.