Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:6:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 3/10)
Character Range: 1874872–1877570

maintenance period—employment terminated
 1067L‑D9 Subject to point 1067L‑D10A, if the person is covered by point 1067L‑D6, the income maintenance period starts, subject to point 1067L‑D10, on the day on which the person is paid the termination payment.

Commencement of income maintenance period where there is a second termination payment
 1067L‑D10 If:
 (a) a person who is covered by point 1067L‑D6 is subject to an income maintenance period (the first period); and
 (b) the person is paid another termination payment during that period (the second leave payment);
the income maintenance period for the second termination payment starts on the day after the end of the first period.

Start of income maintenance period where liquid assets test waiting period applies
 1067L‑D10A If a person to whom point 1067L‑D10 applies is subject to a liquid assets test waiting period, the income maintenance period is taken to have started on the day on which the liquid assets test waiting period started.

Leave payments or termination payments in respect of periods longer than a fortnight
 1067L‑D11 If:
 (a) a person receives a leave payment or termination payment; and
 (b) the payment is in respect of a period longer than a fortnight;
the person is taken to receive in a payment fortnight or part of a payment fortnight an amount calculated by:
 (c) dividing the amount received by the number of days in the period to which the payment relates (daily rate); and
 (d) multiplying the daily rate by the number of days in the payment fortnight that are also in the period.
 1067L‑D12 If the Secretary is satisfied that a person is in severe financial hardship because the person has incurred unavoidable or reasonable expenditure while an income maintenance period applies to the person, the Secretary may determine that the whole, or any part, of the period does not apply to the person.
Note 1: For in severe financial hardship see subsection 19C(2) (person who is not a member of a couple) and subsection 19C(3) (person who is a member of a couple).
Note 2: For unavoidable or reasonable expenditure see subsection 19C(4).
Note 3: If an income maintenance period applies to a person, then, during that period:
(a) the allowance claimed may not be payable to the person; or
(b) the amount of the allowance payable to the person may be reduced.

When a person receives a leave payment or a termination payment
 1067L‑D13 For the purposes of points 1067L‑D5 to 1067L‑D12 (inclusive), a person (first person) is taken to receive a leave payment or termination payment if:
 (a) the payment is made to another person:
 (i) at the direction of the first person or a court; or
 (ii) on behalf of the first