Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1061zca:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1061ZCA (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1392757–1395428

1061ZCA  Extended qualification rule: former recipient of age pension and partner

Qualification
 (1) Subject to subsections (8) and (9), a person is qualified for a pensioner concession card for the period of 2 years starting on the day on which this section begins to apply to the person.

Former recipient of age pension with employment income
 (2) Subject to subsection (6), this section applies to a person if:
 (a) the person has been receiving an age pension; and
 (b) age pension ceases to be payable to the person because the rate of the person's pension is nil; and
 (c) the rate of the person's pension is nil because of the occurrence of an event or change of circumstances that results in the person's income reduced rate (see subsection (3)) being nil; and
 (d) but for the person's income reduced rate being nil, the person would have continued to be qualified for a pensioner concession card because age pension would have continued to be payable to the person; and
 (e) at the time of the cessation, the person's ordinary income (as used to work out the person's income reduced rate) includes income for remunerative work performed by the person in Australia as an employee in an employer/employee relationship.
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person's income reduced rate is the rate worked out at step 8 of the method statement in point 1064‑A1 in Module A of Pension Rate Calculator A.

Partner of former recipient of age pension with employment income
 (4) Subject to subsection (6), this section applies to a person who is a member of a couple if:
 (a) the person's partner is qualified for a pensioner concession card under this section because subsection (2) applies to the partner, because of the occurrence of an event or change of circumstances referred to in that subsection and age pension ceasing to be payable to the partner; and
 (b) immediately before the event or change of circumstances, the person was receiving an age pension, disability support pension or carer payment; and
 (c) the person's pension or payment ceases to be payable to the person because the rate of the person's pension or payment is nil; and
 (d) the person's cessation of payability occurs because of the occurrence of the same event or change of circumstances that resulted in the partner's cessation of payability.
 (5) To avoid doubt, if the person ceases to be a member of the couple after that event or change of circumstances, the person's qualification for a pensioner concession card because of subsection (4) is not affected.

Residency requirement
 (6) This section only applies to a person while the person is residing in Australia.
Note: If