Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 514D

  (1)   This section applies if a surviving partner:

  (a)   is qualified for payments under this Subdivision; and

  (b)   does not elect under subsection   514A(2) not to receive payments under this Subdivision.

  (2)   The surviving partner's parenting payment rate during the bereavement rate continuation period is the benefit PP (partnered) rate that would have been payable to the surviving partner if:

  (a)   the deceased partner had not died; and

  (b)   if the couple had been an illness separated couple or a respite care couple--they had not been such a couple.

  (3)   The surviving partner's parenting payment rate during the bereavement lump sum period (if any) is the pension PP (single) rate.

Note 1:   For bereavement period , bereavement rate continuation period , bereavement lump sum period and first available bereavement adjustment payday see section   21.

Note 2:   For illness separated couple and respite care couple see subsections   4(7) and (8) respectively.

Note 3:   For pension PP (single) and benefit PP (partnered) see section   18.