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4.3.8.20 Extending continuous flexible period after review

Introduction

Where a person's continuous flexible period (1.1.C.145) has ended for a child and has been extended by an additional period following a review and if one or more instalments would have been payable in relation to the additional period, assuming the payability determination had always included the additional period and Centrelink had been required to pay the instalments, and Centrelink is not otherwise required to pay the instalments, then the instalments are taken to be payable on the respective paydays for the instalments.

Centrelink is required to pay these earlier instalments.

Act reference: PPLAct section 87 Payment of arrears—extending continuous flexible period after review, section 92A Effect of extending a person’s continuous flexible period after review

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