1.1.R.05 Receiving income support

Definition

A recipient to whom an income support payment is payable is to be taken as receiving an income support payment. Unless the following exceptions apply, this does not include a period when the rate is nil.

Exception 1: A recipient who is qualified for an employment income nil rate period is taken to be receiving a social security pension or benefit for the purposes of being paid CCS at the non-income tested rate.

Exception 2: A person:

• may have a nil rate of payment of social security pension or benefit due to the inclusion of ADP received by the person or the person's partner, in assessable income, and
• would have a rate of social security pension or benefit greater than nil if the above ADP was excluded from assessable income except when calculating RA.

Such a person is taken to be a person:

• to whom that social security pension or benefit is payable, and
• who is also receiving that social security pension or benefit

as a result of SSAct section 23(1D), and the inclusion of a reference to that section in the definition of 'receiving' in FAAct section 3(1).