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VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 45UF

Annual pension rate

  (1)   For the purposes of this Division, a person's annual pension rate is set out in the following table:

 

Annual pension rate

Item

In this case:

The person's annual pension rate is:

1

The person:

(a) is granted an age service pension or a partner service pension; and

(b) is not permanently blind; and

(c) is not a war widow/war widower--pensioner

the rate that would be the person's provisional payment rate under method statement 1 in subpoint SCH6 - A1(2), ascertained as at the date of the grant, if it were assumed that the person's maximum payment rate were the sum of:

(a) the person's maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and

(b) the person's pension supplement basic amount

2

The person:

(a) is granted an age service pension or a partner service pension; and

(b) is permanently blind; and

(c) is not a war widow/war widower--pensioner

the sum of:

(a) the person's maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and

(b) the person's pension supplement basic amount;

ascertained as at the date of the grant

3

The person:

(a) is granted an age service pension; and

(b) is not permanently blind; and

(c) is a war widow/war widower--pensioner

the lesser of the following rates (or, if the rates are the same, the first rate):

(a) the person's ceiling rate under point SCH6 - A4, ascertained as at the date of the grant;

(b) the rate that would be the person's provisional payment rate under method statement 1 in subpoint SCH6 - A1(2), ascertained as at the date of the grant, if it were assumed that the method statement applied and the person's maximum payment rate were the sum of:

(i) the person's maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and

(ii) the person's pension supplement basic amount

4

The person:

(a) is granted an age service pension; and

(b) is permanently blind; and

(c) is a war widow/war widower--pensioner

the person's ceiling rate under point SCH6 - A4, ascertained as at the date of the grant

5

The person:

(a) is granted income support supplement; and

(b) is not permanently blind

the rate that would be the person's provisional payment rate under method statement 5 in subpoint SCH6 - A1(6), ascertained as at the date of the grant, if it were assumed that the person's maximum payment rate were the sum of:

(a) the person's maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and

(b) the person's pension supplement basic amount

6

The person:

(a) is granted income support supplement; and

(b) is permanently blind

the person's ceiling rate under point SCH6 - A4, ascertained as at the date of the grant

  (2)   The annual pension rate is to be worked out under subsection   (1) by disregarding the amendments made by Part   1 of Schedule   1 to the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Income Reporting and Other Measures) Act 2020 .



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