Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2005C00734:clause:6_1061zea:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2005C00734
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 6 cl 1061ZEA (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 113115–115796

1061ZEA  Further extended qualification rule: loss of payment because of employment income

 (1) This section does not apply in any case where a person is qualified for a pensioner concession card under section 1061ZD or 1061ZE.

 (2) If:
 (a) a person is receiving a social security pension or a social security benefit; and
 (b) the person's rate of payment of the pension or benefit is worked out with regard to the income test module of a rate calculator in Chapter 3; and
 (c) the person has not reached pension age; and
 (d) the person is qualified for a pensioner concession card; and
 (e) the person or the person's partner earns, derives or receives, or is taken to earn, derive or receive, employment income; and
 (f) a payment mentioned in subsection 1061ZA(1) ceases to be payable to the person or the person ceases to receive a payment mentioned in subsection 1061ZA(2):
 (i) if paragraph (e) applies to the person—because of the employment income of the person (either alone or in combination with any other ordinary income earned, derived or received, or taken to have been earned, derived or received, by the person) (and after any working credit balance of the person is reduced to nil); or
 (ii) if paragraph (e) applies to the partner—because of the employment income of the partner (either alone or in combination with any other ordinary income earned, derived or received, or taken to have been earned, derived or received, by the partner) (and after any working credit balance or student income bank balance of the partner is reduced to nil); and
 (g) but for the employment income, or the combined income, referred to in paragraph (f), the person would have been, or would have continued to be, qualified for a pensioner concession card:
 (i) under subsection 1061ZA(1)—because the payment referred to in that subsection would have continued to be payable to the person; or
 (ii) under subsection 1061ZA(2)—because the person would have continued to receive the payment referred to in that subsection; and
 (ga) the person:
 (i) in the case of a woman to whom wife pension ceases to be payable because of the employment income, or the combined income, referred to in subparagraph (f)(ii)—continues, but for that employment income or combined income, to be qualified for wife pension; and
 (ii) in the case of a person to whom pension PP (single) ceases to be payable, or who ceases to receive benefit PP (partnered)—continues, but for the requirement to have at least one PP child, to be qualified for that pension or benefit; and
 (iii) in any other case—continues to be qualified for the payment referred to in section 1061ZA;
the person is qualified for a