Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:20a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
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Provision Reference: s 20A
Character Range: 302653–305257

20A  Pension supplement rate definitions
 (1) The combined couple rate of pension supplement is the sum of the following:
 (a) 4 times the annual rate of utilities allowance for a person who is a member of a couple (other than an illness separated couple, respite care couple or temporarily separated couple);
 (b) twice the annual rate of telephone allowance for a person:
 (i) to whom section 1061SB (increased rate for home internet) applies; and
 (ii) who is partnered (partner getting pension or benefit, and partner getting telephone allowance at the increased rate);
 (c) twice the annual rate of pharmaceutical allowance for a person who is partnered;
 (d) twice the pension supplement basic amount for a person who is partnered;
 (e) if $525.20 exceeds twice the annual rate of utilities allowance for a person who is a member of a couple (other than an illness separated couple, respite care couple or temporarily separated couple)—the amount of the excess;
rounded up to the nearest multiple of $5.20.
Note 1: This rate is indexed 6 monthly in line with CPI increases (see sections 1191 to 1194).
Note 2: This rate is an annual rate.
 (2) The combined couple rate of minimum pension supplement is the sum of the following:
 (a) 4 times the annual rate of utilities allowance for a person who is a member of a couple (other than an illness separated couple, respite care couple or temporarily separated couple);
 (b) twice the annual rate of telephone allowance for a person:
 (i) to whom section 1061SB (increased rate for home internet) applies; and
 (ii) who is partnered (partner getting pension or benefit, and partner getting telephone allowance at the increased rate);
rounded up to the nearest multiple of $5.20.
Note 1: This rate is indexed 6 monthly in line with CPI increases (see sections 1191 to 1194).
Note 2: This rate is an annual rate.
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (1) or (2), a rate mentioned in a paragraph of that subsection is that rate as at 20 September 2009.
Note: Those subsections adopt those rates as indexed on 20 September 2009.
 (4) A person's minimum pension supplement amount is the amount worked out by:
 (a) applying the applicable percentage in the following table to the combined couple rate of minimum pension supplement; and
 (b) if:
 (i) the person is not partnered; and
 (ii) the amount resulting from paragraph (a) is not a multiple of $2.60;
  rounding the amount up or down to the nearest multiple of $2.60 (rounding up if the amount is not a multiple of $2.60 but is a multiple of $1.30).

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