Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:3:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 2/10)
Character Range: 1707481–1710831

(b) ends after the number of paydays worked out using the following formula have passed:
where:
amount of advance is the amount of the advance paid to the person.
pharmaceutical allowance rate is the yearly amount of pharmaceutical allowance which would be added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out the instalment for the day on which the advance is paid if pharmaceutical allowance were to be added to the person's maximum basic rate on that day.

No pharmaceutical allowance if annual limit reached
 1066A‑D6 Pharmaceutical allowance is not to be added to a person's maximum basic rate if:
 (a) the person has received an advance pharmaceutical allowance during the current calendar year; and
 (b) the total amount paid to the person for that year by way of:
 (i) pharmaceutical allowance; and
 (ii) advance pharmaceutical allowance;
equals the total amount of pharmaceutical allowance that would have been paid to the person during that year if the person had not received any advance pharmaceutical allowance.
Note 1: For the amount paid to a person by way of pharmaceutical allowance see subsections 19A(2) to (6).
Note 2: The annual limit is affected by:
                 *    how long during the calendar year the person was on pension or benefit;
                 *    the rate of pharmaceutical allowance the person attracts at various times depending on the person's family situation.

Amount of pharmaceutical allowance
 1066A‑D8 The amount of pharmaceutical allowance is the amount per year worked out using the following Table:

Pharmaceutical allowance amount table
Column 1                               Column 2                                      Column 3         Column 4
Item                                   Person's family situation                     Amount per year  Amount per fortnight
1.                                     Not member of couple                          $135.20          $5.20
2.                                     Partnered                                     $67.60           $2.60
3.                                     Member of illness separated couple            $135.20          $5.20
4.                                     Member of respite care couple                 $135.20          $5.20
5.                                     Partnered (partner getting service pension)   $67.60           $2.60
6.                                     Partnered (partner in gaol)                   $135.20          $5.20

Note 1: For member of couple, partnered, illness separated couple, respite care couple and partnered (partner in gaol) see section 4.
Note 2: The amounts in column 3 are adjusted annually in line with CPI increases (see section 1206A).

Module F—Ordinary income test

Effect of income on maximum payment rate
 1066A‑F1 This is how to work out the effect of a person's ordinary income on the person's maximum payment rate:

      Method statement
           Step 1. Work out the amount of the person's ordinary income on a yearly basis.
                  Note 1: For the treatment of the ordinary income of members of a couple see point 1066A‑F2.
                  Note 2: Module G contains provisions that may apply to working out, under this Rate Calculator, the ordinary income of a person, and the ordinary income of a partner of the person.
           Step 2. Work out