Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 53

  (1)   If:

  (a)   an age pension or a disability support pension is payable to a person; and

  (b)   the person is receiving a veteran's disability pension; and

  (c)   the Secretary has made a determination, for the purposes of this subsection, that instalments of age pension or disability support pension, as the case may be, are to be paid to the person on the days on which instalments of the veteran's disability pension are paid to the person; and

  (d)   the determination has not been revoked;

instalments of age pension or disability support pension are to be paid to the person in accordance with the determination.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an age pension or a disability support pension is payable to a person; and

  (b)   the person's partner is receiving:

  (i)   an age pension and a veteran's disability pension; or

  (ii)   a disability support pension and a veteran's disability pension; and

  (c)   the Secretary has made a determination, for the purposes of this subsection, that instalments of age pension or disability support pension, as the case may be, are to be paid to the person on the days on which instalments of the veteran's disability pension are paid to the person's partner; and

  (d)   the determination has not been revoked;

instalments of age pension or disability support pension are to be paid to the person in accordance with the determination.