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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 243

Subdivision not to apply in certain cases involving simultaneous death

    If:

  (a)   either:

  (i)   a lower ADAT score adult and one or more multiple care children die at the same time; or

  (ii)   a lower ADAT score adult and a dependent child of the adult die at the same time; and

  (b)   apart from this subsection and section   236B, because of those deaths a person would be qualified for payments under this Subdivision and would continue to qualify for carer payment under section   235; and

  (c)   the sum of the amounts payable to the person under this Subdivision is less than or equal to the sum of the carer payments for which the person would continue to qualify under section   235 and any lump sum payable to the person under section   236A;

no amounts are payable to the person under this Subdivision.



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