Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:clause:1a_63:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1A cl 63 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 2884128–2885745

floor amount or one‑half of the person's partner's floor amount, whichever is the greater.
 (9) If:
 (a) subclause (1) or (3) applies to a person; and
 (b) the person becomes a member of a couple; and
 (c) the person's partner is not a person to whom subclause (1) or (3) applies; and
 (d) the person's partner is not a person to whom section 111 of the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1992 applies or would apply if it had not been repealed; and
 (e) the person's partner is a person who is receiving a pension, benefit or additional family payment or a pension under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986;
the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the person's pension, benefit or additional family payment rate and the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the rate of the person's partner's pension, benefit or additional family payment is not to fall below the person's floor amount.
 (10) If:
 (a) a person is receiving a social security pension or a social security benefit; and
 (b) neither subclause (1) nor (3) applies to the person; and
 (c) the person has become or becomes a member of a couple; and
 (d) the person's partner is receiving a pension under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 and is a person to whom clause 5 of Schedule 5 to that Act applies;
the amount by way of rent assistance to be used to calculate the rate of the person's social security pension or social security benefit is not to fall below one‑half of the amount that would be the person's partner's floor amount if subclause (1) or (3) applied to the partner.