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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1061PZG

Rate of pensioner education supplement

  (1)   If a person:

  (a)   is a sub - 50% concessional study - load student in respect of a course; and

  (b)   is not receiving any of the following:

  (i)   a disability support pension under this Act;

  (ia)   a youth allowance, newstart allowance or benefit PP (partnered) under this Act, in a case where the person has a partial capacity to work;

  (ii)   an invalidity service pension under the Veterans' Entitlements Act;

  (iii)   an income support supplement under the Veterans' Entitlements Act on the grounds of permanent incapacity;

  (iv)   a veteran payment;

the pensioner education supplement fortnightly rate for the person is $31.20.

Note 1:   Recipients of youth allowance, newstart allowance or benefit PP (partnered) only qualify for pensioner education supplement in the limited circumstances set out in subsection   1061PJ(2A), (2B) or (2D).

Note 2:   For partial capacity to work see section   16B.

  (2)   The pensioner education supplement fortnightly rate for a person to whom subsection   (1) does not apply is $62.40.

  (3)   The rate of pensioner education supplement for a person is a daily rate worked out by dividing the person's fortnightly rate by 14.

  (4)   For the purposes of this section, a person is a sub - 50% concessional study - load student in respect of a course if the person is a 25% concessional study - load student in respect of the course for the purposes of Subdivision B of Division   1 of this Part who is undertaking, or who intends to undertake, less than one half of the normal amount of full - time study, determined in accordance with section   1061PF, in respect of that course.


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