Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00081:clause:4_219
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00081
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 4 cl 219
Character Range: 109541–110709

219  Minimum amount of social security payment
(1) This item applies to a person if the person receives an instalment of a social security payment for the pension period that includes 20 September 2009.
(2) If:
 (a) for a day in that period before 20 September 2009, an amount of pharmaceutical allowance is added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out the amount of the instalment; and
 (b) apart from this item, the portion of the instalment corresponding to that day would be less than the person's minimum daily rate, but more than a nil amount;
the amount of that portion of the instalment is to be increased to the person's minimum daily rate.
(3) In this item:
minimum daily rate, for a person, means:
 (a) if the Rate Calculator for the social security payment produces a fortnightly rate—1/14 of the amount of pharmaceutical allowance added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out that portion of the instalment; or
 (b) if the Rate Calculator for the social security payment produces an annual rate—1/364 of the amount of pharmaceutical allowance added to the person's maximum basic rate in working out that portion of the instalment.