Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1065:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1065 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 1687483–1690229

payable by way of remote area allowance (see Module E).

           Step 6. Compare the notional income/assets tested rate and the non‑income/assets tested rate: whichever is the greater is the person's rate of pension.
Note 1: The person will also be qualified for a pharmaceutical allowance under Part 2.22.
Note 2: An amount of remote area allowance is to be added under Step 5 only if the person's rate of pension after Step 4 is greater than nil.

Module B—Maximum basic rate

Maximum basic rate
 1065‑B1 A person's maximum basic rate depends on the person's family situation. Work out which family situation in Table B applies to the person. The maximum basic rate is the corresponding amount in column 3 of the Table.

Table B—Maximum basic rates
Column 1                     Column 2                            Column 3       Column 4
Item                         Person's family situation           Rate per year  Rate per fortnight
1.                           Not member of couple                $8,114.60      $312.10
2.                           Partnered                           $6,767.80      $260.30
3.                           Member of illness separated couple  $8,114.60      $312.10
4.                           Member of respite care couple       $8,114.60      $312.10
5.                           Partnered (partner in gaol)         $8,114.60      $312.10

Note 1: For member of couple, partnered, illness separated couple, respite care couple and partnered (partner in gaol) see section 4.
Note 2: The maximum basic rates are adjusted 6 monthly: see sections 1191 to 1198A.

Module BA—Pension supplement

Pension supplement
 1065‑BA1 A pension supplement amount is to be added to the person's maximum basic rate.

Residents in Australia etc.
 1065‑BA2 If the person is residing in Australia and:
 (a) is in Australia; or
 (b) is temporarily absent from Australia and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 6 weeks;
the person's pension supplement amount is:
 (c) if an election by the person under subsection 1061VA(1) is in force—the amount worked out under point 1065‑BA4; and
 (d) otherwise—the amount worked out under point 1065‑BA3.

Residents in Australia etc.—no election in force
 1065‑BA3 The person's pension supplement amount is the amount worked out by:
 (a) applying the applicable percentage in the following table to the combined couple rate of 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).

Item  Person's family situation           Use this %