Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00321:reg:55:p26
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00321
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 55 (pt 26/83)
Character Range: 467025–469948

advise its decision under Rule 10.9.1 or 10.9.3 to the former member. The advice is to include a statement of the reasons for the decision and a copy of the recommendation made by the Assessment Panel, if any.

Division 10

Entitlement to pre‑assessment payments
10.10.1 CSC may pay pre‑assessment payments to a member who has been off work for a continuous period of 28 days or more because of a serious medical condition, unless he/she:
    (a) is a limited benefits member; or
    (b) is on compensation leave.
10.10.2 Before deciding whether to pay pre‑assessment payments to a member, CSC must obtain a report from:
    (a) a Commonwealth Medical Officer; or
    (b) an approved medical practitioner;
whether there is a likelihood the member will be totally and permanently incapacitated because of the condition causing his/her absence from work.
10.10.3 If a report from a Commonwealth Medical Officer or other approved medical practitioner indicates that a program of rehabilitation may prevent a member's total and permanent incapacity, CSC may:
         (a) consult with Comcare or the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, or other appropriate body, with a view to implementing such a program; and
         (b) arrange for, and meet the cost of, that program if it considers that the program would be cost‑effective in reducing the likelihood of the member's invalidity retirement.
10.10.4 CSC must pay pre‑assessment payments to a member if, after considering the report obtained under Rule 10.10.2, it is satisfied there is a real likelihood the member will be totally and permanently incapacitated.
10.10.5 CSC must notify a member that he/she is not entitled to pre‑assessment payments if, after considering the report obtained under Rule 10.10.2, CSC is satisfied it is likely that the member will be able to work again in a job for which he/she is, or could after retraining be, reasonably qualified.

Rate of pre‑assessment payments — first 6 months
10.10.6 Pre‑assessment payments are not payable during the first six months of the member being off work while the member is in receipt of sick leave full pay or sick leave half pay.
10.10.7 If the member does not receive sick leave pay at any time during the first six months of being off work, pre‑assessment payments are payable during that period at the fortnightly rate calculated using the formula below, provided that the rate is greater than zero:

     Half Salary  −  (Partial Invalidity Pension  +  Other Compensation Payments)

where:

                  Half Salary is  per fortnight and

                  Superannuation Salary is the greater of:

                      (i) the sum of the annual basic salary and recognised allowances, if any; or

                      (ii) the sum of the annual maintained basic salary and maintained recognised allowances, if any; or

                      (iii) his/her annual CSS Salary,