Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04731:section:10:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04731
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10 (pt 16/26)
Character Range: 131192–133926

he or she was receiving sickness allowance, the surviving partner's notional rate is the amount of sickness allowance that would have been payable to the surviving partner on the surviving partner's pay day immediately before the first available bereavement adjustment pay day if:

     (a) a sickness allowance had been payable to the surviving partner on that pay day; and

  (b) the surviving partner was not a member of a couple on that pay day.

Deceased partner receiving special benefit

"(5) If, immediately before the deceased partner died, he or she was receiving special benefit, the surviving partner's notional rate is the amount of special benefit that would have been payable to the surviving partner on the surviving partner's pay day immediately before the first available bereavement adjustment pay day if:

     (a) a special benefit had been payable to the surviving partner on that pay day; and

  (b) the surviving partner was not a member of a couple on that pay day.

Effect of death of surviving partner

  "771NY. If:

     (a) a surviving partner is qualified for payments under this Subdivision in relation to the death of the deceased partner; and

  (b) the surviving partner dies within the bereavement period; and

     (c) the Secretary does not become aware of the death of the deceased partner before the surviving partner dies;

there is payable as a lump sum, to any person that the Secretary thinks appropriate, an amount worked out using the following Lump Sum Calculator:

LUMP SUM CALCULATOR

This is how to work out the amount of the lump sum:

         Method statement
Step 1.  Work out the amount that, if neither the surviving partner nor the deceased partner had died, would have been payable to the surviving partner on the surviving partner's payday immediately after the day on which the surviving partner died.
Step 2.  Work out the amount that, if neither the surviving partner nor the deceased partner had died, would have been payable to the deceased partner on the surviving partner's payday immediately after the day on which the surviving partner died.
Step 3.  Add the results of Step 1 and Step 2: the result is called the combined rate.
Step 4.  Work out the amount that, but for section 589A, would have been payable to the surviving partner on the surviving partner's payday immediately after the day on which the surviving partner died if he or she had not died: the result is called the surviving partner's individual rate.
Step 5.  Take the surviving partner's individual rate away from the combined rate: the result is called the deceased partner's instalment component.
Step 6.  Work out the number of the surviving partner's paydays in the period that commences on