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10.5.8.10 Rate Calculation - Background (Agreement with Canada)

Basis for calculation process

Article 7 of the Agreement, when read with social security law, determines the rate of Australian benefit payable under the Agreement.

There are 2 different methods of calculating the rate:

proportional rate, (mostly for people outside Australia) (10.5.8.20), and
direct-deduction rate, (mostly for people inside Australia) (10.5.8.50).

Act reference: SS(IntAgree)Act Schedule 4 Canada

Last reviewed: 21 September 2015

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