Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1061pj:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1061PJ (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 1321415–1324068

1061PJ  Payments attracting pensioner education supplement

General
 (1) A person is receiving a payment attracting pensioner education supplement if the person is receiving:
 (a) a payment under this Act set out in subsection (2); or
 (b) a payment under the Veterans' Entitlements Act set out in subsection (3); or
 (c) in the case of a person who has a dependent child—compensation under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act set out in subsection (4).

Payments under this Act
 (2) The payments under this Act are the following:
 (a) a disability support pension;
 (c) a carer payment;
 (d) a pension (PP) single;
 (da) subject to subsection (2A), a youth allowance;
 (db) subject to subsection (2B), a jobseeker payment;
 (dc) subject to subsection (2D), a benefit PP (partnered);
 (g) in the case of a person who is a sole parent—a special benefit.
 (2A) Paragraph (2)(da) only applies if:
 (a) the person receiving the payment:
 (i) has a partial capacity to work; and
 (ii) on the day (being a day occurring on or after 1 July 2006) immediately before the person first qualified for a youth allowance, was a transitional DSP applicant and was receiving a disability support pension; and
 (iii) ceased to be qualified for that disability support pension because he or she no longer had a continuing inability to work within the meaning of section 94; and
 (iiia) ceased to be so qualified as a result of the first decision about the person's capacity to work made on or after 1 July 2006; and
 (iv) on the day immediately before ceasing to be qualified for that disability support pension, was qualified for a pensioner education supplement in relation to a particular course of education or study; or
 (b) the person receiving the payment:
 (i) is the principal carer of at least one child and is not a member of a couple; and
 (ii) on the day (being a day occurring on or after 1 July 2006) immediately before the person last qualified for a youth allowance, was qualified for parenting payment and was receiving a pension (PP) single; and
 (iii) ceased to be qualified for that parenting payment because he or she no longer had a PP child for the reason that his or her youngest dependent child had turned 14; and
 (iv) on the day immediately before ceasing to be qualified for that parenting payment, was qualified for a pensioner education supplement in relation to a particular course of education or study;
and the person has:
 (c) at all times since that day, been qualified both for:
 (i) a youth allowance; and
 (ii) a pensioner education supplement in relation to that particular course of education or study; and
 (d) at no