Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:2:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 1994953–1997843

a couple; and
 (b) the person's partner is receiving:
 (i) veterans supplement under section 118A of the Veterans' Entitlements Act; or
 (ii) MRCA supplement under section 300 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act; or
 (iii) pharmaceutical supplement under Part 3A of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006; or
 (iv) pharmaceutical supplement under Part 4 of the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019; and
 (c) the person's partner is not receiving a service pension or a veteran payment.

No pharmaceutical allowance before advance payment period ends
 1068B‑E4 Pharmaceutical allowance is not to be included in a person's provisional payment rate if:
 (a) the person has received an advance pharmaceutical allowance under Part 2.23 of this Act; and
 (b) the person's advance payment period has not ended.
Note: For advance payment period see point 1068B‑E5.

Advance payment period
 1068B‑E5(1) A person's advance payment period starts on the day on which the advance pharmaceutical allowance is paid to the person.
 1068B‑E5(2) The period 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 fortnightly amount of pharmaceutical allowance which would be included in the person's maximum payment rate in working out the benefit PP (partnered) instalment for the day on which the advance is paid if parenting payment were payable to the person and pharmaceutical allowance were to be included in the person's maximum payment rate. (The person's maximum payment rate is the maximum payment rate at step 4 of whichever of the method statements in points 1068B‑A2 and 1068B‑A3 is applicable to the person.)
Note: The person may have commenced receiving parenting payment after having been a pension recipient and have received an advance while a pension recipient.

No pharmaceutical allowance if annual limit reached
 1068B‑E6 Pharmaceutical allowance is not to be included in a person's provisional payment 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 (7).
Note 2: The annual limit is affected by:
(a) how long during the calendar year the person was on pension or benefit; and
(b) whether the person's rate of pharmaceutical allowance varies during the calendar