Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1070C

    The common requirements are that:

  (a)   the person is not an aged care resident, and is not taken to be an aged care resident for the purposes of the Rate Calculator concerned; and

  (b)   the person is not an ineligible homeowner; and

  (c)   the person pays, or is liable to pay, rent, other than Government rent, in respect of a period in respect of premises in Australia; and

  (d)   the person's fortnightly rent is more than the rent threshold amount (see section   1070T).