Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:3:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 6/10)
Character Range: 1718676–1721327

subsection 19C(2) (person who is not a member of a couple) and subsection 19C(3) (person who is a member of a couple).
Note 2: For unavoidable or reasonable expenditure see subsection 19C(4).
Note 3: If an income maintenance period applies to a person, then, during that period:
(a) the pension claimed may not be payable to the person; or
(b) the amount of the pension payable to the person may be reduced.

When a person receives a leave payment or a termination payment
 1066A‑G12 For the purposes of points 1066A‑G4 to 1066A‑G11 (inclusive), a person (the first person) is taken to receive a leave payment or termination payment if:
 (a) the payment is made to another person:
 (i) at the direction of the first person or a court; or
 (ii) on behalf of the first person; or
 (iii) for the benefit of the first person; or
 (b) the first person waives or assigns his or her right to receive the payment.

Single payment in respect of different kinds of termination payments
 1066A‑G13 If a person who is covered by point 1066A‑G5 receives a single payment in respect of different kinds of termination payments, then, for the purposes of the application of points 1066A‑G4 to 1066A‑G12 (inclusive):
 (a) each part of the payment that is in respect of a different kind of termination payment is taken to be a separate payment; and
 (b) the income maintenance period in respect of the single payment is worked out by adding the periods to which the separate payments relate.

Definitions
 1066A‑G14 In this Module:
leave payment includes a payment in respect of sick leave, annual leave, maternity leave and long service leave, but does not include an instalment of parental leave pay.
payment fortnight means a fortnight in respect of which a disability support pension is paid, or would be paid apart from the application of an income maintenance period, to a person.
period to which the payment relates means:
 (a) if the payment is a leave payment—the leave period to which the payment relates; or
 (b) if the payment is a termination payment and is calculated as an amount equivalent to an amount of ordinary income that the person would (but for the termination) have received from the employment that was terminated—the period for which the person would have received that amount of ordinary income; or
 (c) if the payment is a termination payment and paragraph (b) does not apply—the period of weeks (rounded down to the nearest whole number) in respect of which the person would have received ordinary income, from the employment that was terminated, of an amount equal to the amount of the termination payment if:
 (i) the person's employment