Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:clause:1a_63:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1A cl 63 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 2879356–2882046

63  Rent assistance (changes introduced on 20 March 1993)
 (1) This clause applies to a person if:
 (a) immediately before 20 March 1993:
 (i) the person was receiving a social security pension, a social security benefit or additional family payment; and
 (ii) the person's pension, benefit or payment rate included an amount by way of rent assistance; and
 (b) this subclause has continued to apply to the person.
 (2) If:
 (a) a decision is made on or after 20 March 1993 that a person is entitled to rent assistance in respect of a period; and
 (b) the period starts before 20 March 1993; and
 (c) the period continued until at least 19 March 1993;
the person is taken, for the purposes of this clause, to have been receiving rent assistance under this Act immediately before 20 March 1993.
 (3) This clause applies to a person if:
 (a) immediately before 20 March 1993, the person was receiving rent assistance under or because of the Veterans' Entitlements Act; and
 (b) after that date, the person becomes entitled to be paid a social security pension, a social security benefit or additional family payment; and
 (c) this subclause has continued to apply to the person.
 (3A) Subject to subclauses (7), (8) and (9), if this clause applies to a person, the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's pension, benefit or payment rate is the amount (the floor amount) worked out using the formula:
where:
preserved rent assistance is the amount worked out under subclause (4).
post‑1995 increase is the sum of the increases in the amount of the maximum fortnightly rate of any of the following payments to the person after 19 March 1996 or the later day (the application day) this clause first applied to the person (whether or not the type or amount of payment payable to the person varies after 19 March 1996 or the application day because the person's circumstances change):
 (a) a social security benefit;
 (b) a social security pension;
 (c) family payment under this Act as previously in force;
 (ca) family allowance;
 (d) non‑benefit parenting allowance;
 (e) child disability allowance;
 (ea) carer allowance;
 (f) double orphan pension;
 (g) mobility allowance;
 (h) youth training allowance.
 (4) For the purposes of subclause (3A), the preserved rent assistance is the amount by way of rent assistance that would be included in the person's pension, benefit or payment rate if:
 (a) the person's pension, benefit or payment rate were neither income reduced nor assets reduced; and
 (b) the amount by way of rent assistance were calculated under this Act as in force immediately before 20 March 1993.
 (5) Subject to subclause (6), subclause (1) or