Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:5:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 2/8)
Character Range: 1664309–1667502

pension rate under this Rate Calculator, Module F applies to working out the ordinary incomes of both members of the couple.

Payment of arrears of periodic compensation payments
 1064‑E3 If:
 (a) at the time of an event that gives rise to an entitlement of a person to compensation, the person is receiving age pension, disability support pension or carer pension; and
 (b) in relation to that entitlement, the person receives a payment of arrears of periodic compensation;
the person is taken to receive on each day in the periodic payments period an amount calculated by dividing the amount received by the number of days in the periodic payments period.
Note: For periodic payments period see section 17.

How to calculate a person's ordinary income free area
 1064‑E4 A person's ordinary income free area is worked out using Table E‑1. Work out which family situation in Table E‑1 applies to the person. The ordinary income free area is the corresponding amount in column 3.

Table E‑1—Ordinary free area limits
Column 1                             Column 2                                                 Column 3                  Column 4
Item                                 Category of person                                       Basic free area per year  Basic free area per fortnight
1.                                   Not member of a couple                                   $2,080                    $80
2.                                   Partnered (partner getting neither pension nor benefit)  $1,820                    $70
3.                                   Partnered (partner getting benefit)                      $1,820                    $70
4.                                   Partnered (partner getting pension)                      $1,820                    $70

Note 1: For member of a couple, partnered (partner getting neither pension nor benefit), partnered (partner getting benefit) and partnered (partner getting pension) see section 4.
Note 3: Items 2, 3 and 4 of Table E‑1 apply to members of illness separated and respite care couples.
Note 4: The basic free area limits are indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1191 to 1194).

Pension reduction for ordinary income in excess of ordinary income free area
 1064‑E10 A person's reduction for ordinary income is:

Ordinary income excess
 1064‑E11 A person's ordinary income excess is the person's ordinary income less the person's ordinary income free area.

Module F—Ordinary income for the purposes of disability support pension

Application of this Module
 1064‑F1 This Module applies only for the purposes of working out the rate of disability support pension payable to a person. It so applies to that person and, if the person is a member of a couple, to the person's partner.

Lump sum payments arising from termination of employment
 1064‑F2 Subject to points 1064‑F4 to 1064‑F14 (inclusive), if:
 (a) a person's employment has been terminated; and
 (b) as a result the person is entitled to a lump sum payment from the person's former employer;
the person is taken to have received the lump sum payment on the day on which the person's employment was terminated.

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