Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1061zea:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1061ZEA (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 1410311–1412979

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 1061ZCA, 1061ZCB, 1061ZD, 1061ZDA, 1061ZDB or 1061ZEB.
 (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
 (d) the person is qualified for a pensioner concession card; and
 (e) the person or the person's partner has 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), (2A), (2B) or (2D):
 (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); 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
 (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), (2A), (2B) or (2D)—because the person would have continued to receive the payment referred to in that subsection; and
 (ga) the person:
 (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
 (iia) in the case of a person who is a principal carer of a child and who ceases to receive youth allowance—continues, but for the fact that paragraph 540(1)(a) no longer applies to the person, to be qualified for youth allowance; and
 (iib) in the case of a person who is a principal carer of a child and who ceases to receive jobseeker payment—continues, but for the fact that either or both of paragraphs 593(1)(a) and (b) no longer apply to the person, to be qualified for jobseeker payment; and
 (iii) in any other case—continues to be qualified for the payment referred to in section