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10.11.5.30 Widowed Persons - Agreement with Austria

Widowed person

Article 11, paragraph 5, provides that if a 'widowed person' does not have enough periods of Austrian insurance to establish entitlement to an Australian benefit for a widowed person, he or she may use any of the late partner's insurance periods, unless those periods overlap with his or her own periods of insurance.

Act reference: SS(IntAgree)Act Schedule 10 Austria

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