Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 93WC

  (1)   PBBP employment income , of a person:

  (a)   means ordinary income that is, or is taken to be, earned, derived or received by the person or the person's partner from gainful work; and

  (b)   includes (without limitation) any of the following that is, or is taken to be, earned, derived or received by the person or the person's partner:

  (i)   salary, wages, commissions and employment - related fringe benefits;

  (ii)   leave payments;

  (iii)   payments to the person or the person's partner by a former employer of the person or partner in relation to the termination of the person's or partner's employment.

  (2)   For the purposes of subparagraph   (1)(b)(ii), a leave payment :

  (a)   includes a payment in respect of sick leave, personal leave, carer's leave, annual leave, maternity leave, long service leave or special leave; and

  (aa)   includes an instalment of parental leave pay; and

  (b)   may be made as a lump sum payment, a series of regular payments or otherwise; and

  (c)   is taken to be made to a person if it is made to another person:

  (i)   at the direction of the person or of a court; or

  (ii)   on behalf of the person; or

  (iii)   for the benefit of the person; or

  (iv)   if the person waives or assigns his or her right to the payment.