Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5
Character Range: 1867109–1869391

5                  If the recipient's maximum basic rate is worked out under item 2 of the table in point 1067L‑B3        $8.60

Module C—Pharmaceutical allowance

Qualification for pharmaceutical allowance
 1067L‑C1 Subject to points 1067L‑C1A and 1067L‑C2, an amount by way of pharmaceutical allowance is to be added to a person's maximum basic rate if:
 (b) the person has turned 55; and
 (c) the person has been receiving income support payments in respect of a continuous period of at least 9 months (whether or not the kind of payment received has changed over the period and whether the period or any part of it occurred before or after the commencement of this paragraph).
Note 1: For income support payment see subsection 23(1).
Note 2: For the determination of the continuous period in respect of which a person received income support payments see section 38B.

No pharmaceutical allowance if person receiving pension supplement
 1067L‑C1A Pharmaceutical allowance is not to be added to a person's maximum basic rate if a pension supplement amount has been added to that rate.

No pharmaceutical allowance if partner receiving certain supplements under other Acts
 1067L‑C2 Pharmaceutical allowance is not to be added to a person's maximum basic rate if:
 (a) the person is a member of a couple; and
 (b) the person's partner is receiving:
 (i) veterans supplement under section 118A of the Veterans' Entitlements Act; or
 (ii) MRCA supplement under section 300 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act; or
 (iii) pharmaceutical supplement under Part 3A of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006; or
 (iv) pharmaceutical supplement under Part 4 of the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019; and
 (c) the person's partner is not receiving a service pension or a veteran payment.

Amount of pharmaceutical allowance
 1067L‑C3 The amount of pharmaceutical allowance is the amount per fortnight worked out using the following table:

Table C—Pharmaceutical allowance amounts
Column 1                                  Column 2                                     Column 3
Item                                      Person's family situation                    Amount per fortnight