Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1067l:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1067L (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1857875–1860637

1067L  Rate of austudy payment

Austudy Payment Rate Calculator
 (1) The rate of austudy payment of a person referred to in section 581 is to be calculated in accordance with the Rate Calculator in this section.

Limit on rate of payment
 (2) If:
 (a) a person is living with another person as the spouse of the other person on a genuine domestic basis although not legally married to the other person (whether the persons are the same sex or different sexes); and
 (b) the other person is under the age of consent that applies in the State or Territory in which they are living;
the rate of the person's austudy payment is not to be more than the rate at which the austudy payment would be payable to the person if the other person were the person's partner.

Austudy Payment Rate Calculator

Module A—Overall rate calculation process

Method of calculating rate
 1067L‑A1 The rate of payment is a daily rate. That rate is worked out by dividing the fortnightly rate calculated according to this Rate Calculator by 14.

      Method statement
           Step 1. Work out the person's maximum basic rate using Module B below.
           Step 1A. Work out the pension supplement amount (if any) using Module BA below.
           Step 1B. Work out the energy supplement (if any) using Module BB below.
           Step 2. Work out the amount a fortnight (if any) of pharmaceutical allowance using Module C below.
           Step 2A. Work out the applicable amount per fortnight (if any) for rent assistance in accordance with paragraph 1070A(a).
           Step 3. Add up the amounts obtained in Steps 1, 1A, 1B, 2 and 2A: the result is the maximum payment rate.
           Step 4. Apply the income test using Module D below to work out the person's income reduction.
           Step 5. Take away the person's income reduction from the maximum payment rate: the result is the provisional fortnightly payment rate.
                  Note: If a person's rate is reduced under this step, the order in which the reduction is to be made is laid down by section 1210.
           Step 6. The rate of payment is the amount obtained by:

                (a) subtracting from the provisional fortnightly payment rate any special employment advance deduction (see Part 3.16B); and
                (b) if there is any amount remaining, subtracting from that amount any advance payment deduction (see Part 3.16A); and
                (c) adding any amount payable by way of remote area allowance (see Module F).

Module B—Maximum basic rate

Maximum basic rate
 1067L‑B1 A person's maximum basic rate is to be worked out as follows:
 (a) if the person is not a long term income support student (see section 1067K)—use Table BA;
 (b) if the person is a long term income support