Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04731:section:10:p14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04731
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10 (pt 14/26)
Character Range: 125976–128848

the surviving partner was not a member of a couple.

Note 1: For 'long-term social security recipient' see subsection 23(1).

    Note 2: For 'bereavement period', 'bereavement rate continuation period' and 'bereavement lump sum period' see section 21.

"Subdivision C—Bereavement payments for person receiving partner
allowance following death of the person's partner

Qualification for payments under this Subdivision

  "771NV.(1) If:

  (a) a person is receiving partner allowance; and

  (b) the person's partner dies; and

    (c) immediately before the deceased partner died, he or she was a long term social security recipient;

the surviving partner is qualified for payments under this Subdivision to cover the bereavement period.

    Note 1: Section 771NW provides for the payment to the surviving partner, up to the first available bereavement adjustment payday, of amounts equal to the instalments that would have been paid to the deceased partner during that period if the partner had not died.

    Note 2: Section 771NX provides for a lump sum that represents the instalments that would have been paid to the surviving partner, between the first available bereavement adjustment payday and the end of the bereavement period, if the deceased partner had not died.

"(2) A surviving partner who is qualified for payments under this Subdivision may choose not to receive payments under this Subdivision.

  "(3) An election under subsection (2):

  (a) must be made by written notice to the Secretary; and

    (b) may be made after the surviving partner has been paid an amount or amounts under this Subdivision; and

    (c) cannot be withdrawn after the Department has taken all the action required to give effect to that election.

Continued payment of deceased partner's benefit

"771NW. If a surviving partner is qualified for payments under this Subdivision in relation to the death of the deceased partner, there is payable to the surviving partner, on each of the deceased partner's paydays in the bereavement rate continuation period, an amount equal to the amount that would have been payable to the deceased partner on that payday if he or she had not died.

Lump sum payable in some circumstances

  "771NX.(1) If:

    (a) a surviving partner is qualified for payments under this Subdivision in relation to the death of the deceased partner; and

    (b) the first available bereavement adjustment payday occurs before the end of the bereavement period;

there is payable to the surviving partner as a lump sum an amount worked out using the following Lump Sum Calculator:

LUMP SUM CALCULATOR

This is how to work out the amount of the lump sum:

         Method statement
Step 1.  Work out the amount that, if the deceased partner had not died, would have been payable to the surviving partner on the surviving partner's payday immediately