Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:clause:6_4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 6 cl 4 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 2103225–2105826

4                  Member of a respite care couple        $366.60

Note: For member of a couple, partnered, illness separated couple and respite care couple see subsections 5E(1) and (5) and 5R(5) and (6) respectively.

Module C—Rent assistance

Application
 SCH6‑C1 Points SCH6‑C2 to SCH6‑C11 apply to a person who is in receipt of a service pension, income support supplement or a veteran payment.

Rent assistance
 SCH6‑C2 Rent assistance is an amount that may be added to the maximum basic rate or ceiling rate to help cover the cost of rent. A person who is eligible for rent assistance under point SCH6‑C3 can have added to his or her maximum basic rate or ceiling rate the amount applying to that person under Table C‑2.

Eligibility for rent assistance
 SCH6‑C3(1) Rent assistance is to be added to a person's maximum basic rate or ceiling rate if:
 (a) the person is not an aged care resident; and
 (b) the person is not an ineligible property owner; and
 (c) the person pays, or is liable to pay, rent (other than Government rent); and
 (d) the rent is payable at a rate of more than the rent threshold rate; and
 (e) either:
 (i) the person is in Australia; or
 (ii) the person is temporarily absent from Australia and the period in respect of which the rent assistance is sought is not a period after the first 26 weeks of the absence; and
 (f) in a case where the person is entitled to be paid a family tax benefit—the person satisfies either point SCH6‑C3A or SCH6‑C3B.
Note 1: For aged care resident see subsection 5NC(5).
Note 2: For rent, Government rent and ineligible property owner see section 5N.
Note 3: For rent threshold rate see point SCH6‑C6.
Note 4: For illness separated couple and respite care couple see subsections 5R(5) and (6).
 (2) If:
 (a) the person is temporarily absent from Australia; and
 (b) the Commission is satisfied that the person is unable to return to Australia before the end of the 26 weeks mentioned in subparagraph (1)(e)(ii) because of an event referred to in subpoint (3);
the Commission may, in relation to the person, determine that a reference to 26 weeks in subparagraph (1)(e)(ii) is taken to be a reference to another number of weeks.
 (3) The events are the following:
 (a) a serious accident involving the person or a family member of the person;
 (b) a serious illness of the person or a family member of the person;
 (c) the hospitalisation of the person or a family member of the person;
 (d) the death of a family member of the person;
 (e) the person's involvement in custody proceedings in the country in which the person is located;