Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:5:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 10/13)
Character Range: 1938162–1940825

of payments of ordinary income (except employment income); and
 (b) each payment is in respect of a period (in this point called the work period) that is greater than a fortnight; and
 (c) there is reasonable predictability or regularity as to the timing of the payments; and
 (d) there is reasonable predictability as to the quantum of the payments;
the person is taken to receive in a fortnight falling within, or overlapping with, a work period an amount calculated by:
 (e) dividing the amount received by the number of days in the work period (the result is called the daily rate); and
 (f) multiplying the daily rate by the number of days in the fortnight that are also within the work period.

Payment of arrears of periodic compensation payments
 1068‑G8A If:
 (a) at the time of an event that gives rise to an entitlement of a person to compensation, the person is receiving jobseeker payment; and
 (b) in relation to that entitlement, the person receives a payment of arrears of periodic compensation;
the person is taken to receive in a fortnight falling within, or overlapping with, the periodic payments period, an amount calculated by:
 (c) dividing the amount received by the number of days in the periodic payments period (the result is called the daily rate); and
 (d) multiplying the daily rate by the number of days in the fortnight that are also within the periodic payments period.
Note: For periodic payments period see section 17.

Partner income free area
 1068‑G9 The partner income free area for a person is:
 (a) if the person's partner is not receiving a social security benefit and has not turned 22—the amount of income of the partner (rounded up to the nearest dollar) beyond which youth allowance would not be payable to the partner if the partner were qualified for a youth allowance and were not undertaking full‑time study (see section 541B); or
 (b) if the person's partner is not receiving a social security benefit and has turned 22—the amount of income of the partner (rounded up to the nearest dollar) beyond which jobseeker payment would not be payable to the partner if the partner were qualified for a jobseeker payment; or
 (c) if the person's partner is receiving a social security benefit—the amount of income of the partner (rounded up to the nearest dollar) beyond which that benefit would not be payable to the partner.
 1068‑G9A For the purposes of paragraph 1068‑G9(a), disregard steps 2, 2A and 3 of the method statement in point 1067G‑A1.
 1068‑G9B For the purposes of paragraph 1068‑G9(b), disregard steps 2 and 3 of the method statement in point 1068‑A1.

Partner income excess
 1068‑G10 If:
 (a) a person is