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of this Act; or

  (b) additional amounts for dependent children under:

      (i) subsection 33 (3) or (4) of the 1947 Act; or

      (ii) this Act; or

         (iii) paragraph 47 (3) (a), (b), (c) or (e) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act;

    (c)     an amount by way of rent assistance under the 1947 Act, this Act or the Veterans' Entitlements Act; or

    (d)     an amount by way of remote area allowance under the 1947 Act, this Act or the Veterans' Entitlements Act;

"indexation increase", in relation to a social security pension, social security benefit or service pension, means an increase in the rate at which the pension or benefit is payable that has occurred because of an indexation provision;

"indexation provision" means a provision of this Act, the 1947 Act or the Veterans' Entitlements Act that provides for the rate of a pension or benefit to be increased periodically by reference to the quarterly All Groups Consumer Price Index numbers published by the Australian Statistician;

"ordinary income" does not include an amount that is disregarded under this Act, the 1947 Act or the Veterans' Entitlements Act because of an earnings credit scheme;

"total income", for a person in a period, means the sum of:

    (a)     the person's ordinary income and maintenance income received in that period; and

    (b)     any social security pension, social security benefit or service pension received by the person in that period;

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reduced by so much of that amount as:

    (c)     was received as arrears of payments due to the person before that period; and

    (d)     the Secretary is satisfied should be disregarded for the purposes of this clause.

Rent assistance—boarders and lodgers (changes introduced on 13 June 1989)

  27. (1) If:

  (a) immediately before 13 June 1989:

         (i) a person was receiving a social security pension, a social security benefit or family allowance supplement under the 1947 Act; and

         (ii) the person's pension, benefit or allowance rate included an amount by way of rent assistance in respect of payments made for board and lodging; and

  (b) at all times since 13 June 1989, the person:

         (i) has been receiving a social security pension, a social security benefit or family allowance supplement; and

      (ii) has been a boarder;

the amount by way of rent assistance included in the person's pension, benefit or allowance rate is not to fall below the floor amount.

  (2) If:

    (a)     a decision is made under the 1947 Act on or after 13 June 1989 that a person is entitled to rent assistance under that Act in respect of a period; and

  (b)    the period starts before 13 June 1989; and

  (c)     the period continued until at least 12 June 1989;

the person