Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:796:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 796 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 1065075–1067763

Calculator did not apply to the person: the result is called the person's notional domestic rate.
           Step 4. Multiply the person's notional domestic rate by the person's residence factor: the result is the person's special needs proportional rate.

Module B—Australian working life residence

Working life
796‑B1  For the purposes of this Module, a person's working life is the period commencing when the person turns 16 and ending:
 (a) if the person is a woman—when she turns 60; or
 (b) if the person is a man—when he turns 65.

Australian working life residence (general)
796‑B2  Subject to points 796‑B3 to 796‑B9, a person's period of Australian working life residence as at a particular time is the number of months in the period, or the aggregate of the periods, during the person's working life during which the person has, up to that time, been an Australian resident.

Calculation of number of months
796‑B3  If a person's period of Australian working life residence would, apart from this subsection, be a number of whole months, the period is to be increased by one month.
796‑B4  If a person's period of Australian working life residence would, apart from this subsection, be a number of whole months and a day or days, the period is to be increased so that it is equal to the number of months plus one month.

Australian working life residence (special needs age or disability support pensioner couples)
796‑B5  If:
 (a) a person is receiving a special needs age pension or a special needs disability support pension; and
 (b) the person is a member of a couple; and
 (c) the person's partner is receiving an age or disability support pension or a special needs age or disability support pension; and
 (d) the partner's period of Australian working life residence is longer than the period that would be the person's period of Australian working life residence under point 796‑B2;
the person's period of Australian working life residence is to be equal to the partner's period of Australian working life residence.

Australian working life residence (member of former special needs age or disability support pensioner couple)
796‑B6  If:
 (a) a person is receiving a special needs age pension or a special needs disability support pension; and
 (b) the person is a member of a couple; and
 (c) the person ceases to be a member of a couple; and
 (d) immediately before the person ceases to be a member of a couple:
 (i) the person was receiving an age or disability support pension or a special needs age or disability support pension; and
 (ii) the partner was receiving an age or disability support pension or a special needs age or disability support pension; and