Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04771:front:0:p59
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04771
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 152979–155616

below to work out the reduction for maintenance income.
Step 16.  Take the reduction for maintenance income away from the result obtained in Step 14.
Step 17.  Add the amount obtained in Step 16 to the person's provisional rate (see Step 10 or 11): the result is the rate of income support supplement.

    Note 1: If a person's assets reduced rate is less than the person's adjusted income reduced rate, the person may be able to take advantage of provisions dealing with:
    • financial hardship (sections 52Y and 52Z);
    • pension loans scheme (section 52ZA).
    Note 2: If a person's rate is reduced under Step 14 the order in which the reduction is to be made against the components of the maximum payment rate is laid down by section 45V (maximum basic rate first, then remote area allowance).
Note 3: The rate calculation for a member of a couple is affected by the operation of point 45Y-A2.
    Note 4: The amount of a fortnightly instalment of income support supplement will be rounded off to the nearest multiple of 10 cents (see subsections 58A(2) and (3)).
    Note 5: For the minimum amount of a fortnightly instalment of income support supplement see subsection 58A(4).

Members of a couple

"45Y-A2. Where 2 persons are members of a couple, they will be treated as pooling their resources and, in the case of adjusted income and assets (but not maintenance income), sharing them on a 50/50 basis (see points

45Y-D2, 45Y-E2, and 45Y-H3 below). They will also be treated as sharing expenses (e.g. for rent) on a 50/50 basis (see points 45Y-F8, 45Y-F9 and 45Y-F10 below).

Ceiling rate

"45Y-A3. The ceiling rate for a war widow or war widower is $3,122.60 unless point 45Y-A4 applies to the war widow or war widower.

  "45Y-A4. If:

    (a) a person became a war widow or war widower before 1 November 1986; and

    (b) immediately before 1 November 1986 the person was receiving a social security pension at a rate ('pre-November 1986 rate') equal to or more than $3,122.60;

    (c) since that day the person has been continuously receiving the social security pension or income support supplement;

his or her ceiling rate is equal to the pre-November 1986 rate.

Compensation reduced pension

"45Y-A5. A pension payable to a war widow or war widower under Part II is compensation reduced if the pension has been reduced:

    (a) by taking into account (under subsection 30(3)) the rate, or amount, of any payment that the war widow or war widower is entitled to receive under the law of a State or of a foreign country; or

    (b) by taking into account (under Division 5A of that Part) the rate at which any