Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:4:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 580434–581953

of the person's overall qualifying period, deferred an age pension; and
 (ii) is permanently blind;
  the sum of:
 (iii) the maximum basic rate under Table B in point 1065‑B1 of the Social Security Act 1991; and
 (iv) the person's pension supplement basic amount;
  worked out, in each case, as at the date of grant of the designated pension if it were assumed that the person were a member of a couple at that date.
period a war widow or war widower is the number of days in so much of the partner part of overall qualifying period as occurred when the person was a war widow/war widower—pensioner.
annual pension rate is the person's annual pension rate, worked out as at the date of grant of the designated pension, in accordance with section 45UF.
Note: There may be circumstances where one or other of the bracketed parts of the formula will have a nil value.
 (3) For the purposes of this section, a person's adjusted percentage is the percentage worked out using the following formula (for rounding up, see subsection (4)):

where:
maximum basic rate is the sum of the person's maximum basic rate under point SCH6‑B1 and the person's pension supplement basic amount, ascertained as at the date of grant of the designated pension.
 (4) A percentage worked out under subsection (3) is to be calculated to 3 decimal places. However, if a percentage worked out under subsection (3) would, if it were calculated to 4 decimal places, end in a digit that is greater than 4, the percentage is to be increased by 0.001.