Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:clause:6_5:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 6 cl 5 (pt 2/9)
Character Range: 2077965–2080797

10. Work out the amount per year (if any) payable by way of remote area allowance using MODULE G below.
           Step 11. Add any amount obtained in Step 10 to the person's provisional payment rate (see Step 9). The result is the person's rate of service pension.
                  Note 1: For ordinary/adjusted income see point SCH6‑E1.
                  Note 2: If a person's assets reduced rate is less than the person's ordinary/adjusted income reduced rate, the person may be able to take advantage of provisions dealing with financial hardship (sections 52Y and 52Z).
                  Note 4: If a person's rate is reduced under step 9, the order in which the reduction is to be made against the components of the maximum payment rate is laid down by clause 4 of Part 1.
                  Note 4A: Clause 30 of Schedule 5 may affect the provisional payment rate in step 9.
                  Note 5: The rate calculation for a member of a couple is affected by the operation of point SCH6‑A2.
                  Note 6: The amount of a fortnightly instalment of service pension will be rounded to the nearest cent (see subsection 58A(5)).
                  Note 7: For the minimum amount of a fortnightly instalment of service pension, see subsection 58A(9).
                  Note 8: An amount of remote area allowance is to be added under Step 11 only if the person's rate of service pension is greater than nil or, apart from section 36A, 37A or 38A, the person's rate of service pension would be nil.
                  Note 9: The amount of a fortnightly instalment of service pension may be reduced by an advance payment deduction (see Division 6 of Part IVA).

Method statement 2 (service pension, blind, not war widow/war widower—pensioner)
 (3) The rate of service pension for a person who:
 (a) is permanently blind; and
 (b) is not a war widow/war widower—pensioner;
is worked out in accordance with Method statement 2.
Note: For war widow/war widower—pensioner see subsection 5Q(1).

      Method statement 2
           Step 1. Work out what would be the person's rate of service pension if Method statement 1 applied to the person: the result is called the notional income/assets tested rate.

                Note: This is the only situation in which a blind person's pension can be made subject to an income test or assets test (see point SCH6‑A3).

           Step 2. Work out the person's maximum basic rate using MODULE B below.
           Step 2A. Work out the amount of pension supplement using Module BA below.
           Step 2B. Work out the amount of energy supplement (if any) using Module BB below.
           Step 4. Add up the amounts obtained in Steps 2, 2A and 2B: the result is called the maximum payment rate.
                  Note: Section 65A may affect whether the amount obtained in step