Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 592E

Recovery/reduction of amount payable

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person is qualified for payments under this Division in relation to the death of the person's partner; and

  (b)   after the person's partner died, an amount to which the partner would have been entitled if the partner had not died has been paid under this Act or under Part   III or IIIA of the Veterans' Entitlements Act; and

  (c)   the Secretary is not satisfied that the person has not had the benefit of that amount;

the following provisions have effect:

  (d)   the amount referred to in paragraph   (b) is not recoverable from the person or from the personal representative of the person's partner, except to the extent (if any) that the amount is more than the amount payable to the person under this Division;

  (e)   the amount payable to the person under this Division is to be reduced by the amount referred to in paragraph   (b).

Bank not liable

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a person is qualified for payments under this Division in relation to the death of the person's partner; and

  (b)   the amount to which the person's partner would have been entitled if the person's partner had not died has been paid under this Act or under Part   III or IIIA of the Veterans' Entitlements Act, within the bereavement period, into an account with a bank; and

  (c)   the bank pays to the person, out of the account, an amount not more than the total of the amounts paid as mentioned in paragraph   (b);

the bank is, despite anything in any other law, not liable to any action, claim or demand by the Commonwealth, the personal representative of the person's partner or anyone else in respect of the payment of that money to the person.