The Guides to Social Policy Law is a collection of publications designed to assist decision makers administering social policy law. The information contained in this publication is intended only as a guide to relevant legislation/policy. The information is accurate as at the date listed at the bottom of the page, but may be subject to change. To discuss individual circumstances please contact Services Australia.
- 1.1.C.15 Care definitions
- 1.1.C.175 Clean energy advance period
- 1.1.C.190 Clean energy payment
- 1.1.C.208 Commonwealth registration number (YA, Austudy)
- 1.1.C.230 Comparable foreign payments (CFPs)
- 1.1.C.25 Care situations
- 1.1.C.250 Compensation affected payment
- 1.1.C.60 Carer visa holder (CP)
- 1.1.D.233 Disqualifying scholarship
- 1.1.D.240 Double orphan (DOP)
- 1.1.D.70 Dependent child
- 1.1.D.80 Dependent child (YA)
- 1.1.E.05 Early school leaver (YA)
- 1.1.E.125 Entitlement period
- 1.1.E.230 External Territory
- 1.1.F.135 Financial investments
- 1.1.F.210 Full year course (PES)
- 1.1.F.60 Family member
- 1.1.F.70 Family member (CA (adult))
- 1.1.I.180 Intending student (YA)
- 1.1.I.20 Imprisonment/in gaol
- 1.1.I.50 Income components (YA)
- 1.1.I.60 Income maintenance period (IMP) (JSP, YA, Austudy, PP, DSP)
- 1.1.I.80 Income support payment
- 1.1.L.120 Long term social security recipient
- 1.1.L.140 Lump sum
- 1.1.L.30 Late starting course (YA, Austudy, PES)
- 1.1.L.60 Liquid funds (SpB)
- 1.1.M.133 Mental hospital patient
- 1.1.M.140 Minimum time (YA, Austudy, PES)
- 1.1.M.25 Managed investments
- 1.1.N.03 National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) amount
- 1.1.N.05 National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participant
- 1.1.N.06 National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan
- 1.1.N.130 Notional continuous period of receipt of income support payments (JSP, YA)
- 1.1.N.20 Near relative
- 1.1.N.70 Newly arrived resident's waiting period (NARWP)
- 1.1.P.129 Pension age (Age)
- 1.1.P.165 Pension year
- 1.1.P.205 Permanent & temporary hardship
- 1.1.P.310 Portability, proportional portability
- 1.1.P.365 Pre-pension year
- 1.1.P.370 Prescribed educational scheme
- 1.1.P.470 Psychiatric confinement
- 1.1.P.80 Partner income free area
- 1.1.R.103 Reference tax year (CA)
- 1.1.R.105 Reference tax year (CSHC)
- 1.1.R.110 Refugee
- 1.1.R.170 Rent increased pension (RA)
- 1.1.R.55 Receiving
- 1.1.S.110 Severely disabled (DSP)
- 1.1.S.120 Severe financial hardship - assets test hardship
- 1.1.S.160 Short course (YA, Austudy, PES)
- 1.1.S.190 Social security benefit
- 1.1.S.200 Social security entitlement
- 1.1.S.210 Social security payment
- 1.1.S.220 Social security pension
- 1.1.S.290 Sponsor (SpB)
- 1.1.S.42 Saved compensation affected payment
- 1.1.S.90 Service pension
- 1.1.T.10 Tax year
- 1.1.T.147 Transitional applicant (DSP)
- 1.1.T.160 Treating doctor (DSP)
- 1.1.T.20 Taxable income
- 1.1.W.10 Waiting period
- 1.2.1.20 Youth allowance (YA) - description
- 1.2.2.10 Partner allowance (PA) - description
- 1.2.3.10 Age pension (Age) - description
- 1.2.3.30 Widow allowance (WA) - description
- 1.2.4.10 Parenting payment (PP) - description
- 1.2.5.10 Disability support pension (DSP) - description
- 1.2.7.180 Approved program of work supplement (APWS) - description
- 1.2.7.50 Energy supplement (ES) - description
- 1.3.3 Privacy & confidentiality
- 1.3.4.30 Duty to invite claims or volunteer information
- 3.1.1.20 Residence in external territories
- 3.1.11.10 Recipients eligible for working credit
- 3.1.12 Employment income nil rate period
- 3.1.2.10 Application of waiting periods
- 3.10.2.10 Entitlement period - an overview
- 3.10.2.20 Entitlement period - general rules
- 3.10.2.30 Alignment of an entitlement period for partnered recipients
- 3.10.2.60 Recipients who receive multiple payments
- 3.10.2.80 Recipient loses entitlement
- 3.10.3.10 Timing of payment delivery
- 3.10.3.20 Most payments made fortnightly
- 3.10.3.60 Partnered recipients - payment delivery
- 3.10.3.70 'Offset' family assistance & CA payments
- 3.10.3.80 Changing a payment delivery day
- 3.1.4.05 Payability during periods in gaol or psychiatric confinement
- 3.1.4.10 Situations that constitute being in gaol or psychiatric confinement
- 3.1.4.20 Person undertaking a course of rehabilitation
- 3.1.4.30 Payment after release
- 3.1.4.40 Effect of a community service order on participation payments
- 3.1.5.100 Bereavement payment provisions for PA recipients
- 3.1.5.112 Death of PP recipient's partner
- 3.10.5.40 Waiting periods - date of effect
- 3.1.5.50 Bereavement payments for couples where one member is a DVA pensioner
- 3.1.5.70 The lump sum bereavement payment - member of a couple
- 3.1.6 General payability provisions
- 3.1.6.10 General payability provisions
- 3.1.9 Compensation provisions
- 3.11.10 Mutual obligation requirements for people receiving SpB
- 3.11.13 Consequences for not meeting mutual obligation requirements - targeted compliance framework
- 3.11.14 Consequences for not meeting mutual obligation requirements - Job Seeker Compliance Framework
- 3.15.1 CEA - qualification & payability
- 3.15.2.10 Qualification for ES
- 3.15.2.20 Payability of ES
- 3.15.4.120 Role of medical practitioners (EMEP)
- 3.2.1.05 Qualification for JSP
- 3.2.1.20 Payability of JSP
- 3.2.1.30 Waiting, preclusion & exclusion periods for JSP
- 3.2.1.35 Move to area of lower employment prospects for JSP, YA & SpB recipients
- 3.2.1.50 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for JSP recipients
- 3.2.3.10 Qualification for YA
- 3.2.3.20 Payability of YA
- 3.2.3.30 Waiting, preclusion & exclusion periods for YA
- 3.2.4.10 General provisions for YA exemptions for under 18s
- 3.2.4.70 Caring exemption for under 18s
- 3.3.1.20 Issues affecting qualification for PA
- 3.3.1.30 Payability of PA
- 3.3.1.50 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for PA recipients
- 3.3.3.10 Qualification for Austudy
- 3.3.3.60 Continuation, variation or termination of Austudy
- 3.4.1.10 Qualification for Age
- 3.4.1.20 Payability of Age
- 3.4.1.60 Continuation, variation or termination of Age
- 3.4.1.70 Suspension instead of cancellation for Age recipients with employment income
- 3.4.11 PBBP - qualification & payability
- 3.4.3.20 Payability of WA
- 3.4.3.40 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for WA recipients
- 3.4.5.10 Qualification for HEAS
- 3.4.5.100 Saved cases - PLS before 10 July 1996
- 3.4.5.50 Payability of HEAS
- 3.4.5.70 Notification & recipient obligations for HEAS
- 3.4.5.90 Repayment of a HEAS loan
- 3.4.6.10 Qualification for SpNP
- 3.4.6.20 Payability of SpNP
- 3.4.6.70 Continuation, variation or termination of SpNP
- 3.4.7.10 Qualification for PBS
- 3.4.7.50 Non-accruing membership of PBS
- 3.5.1.130 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for PP recipients
- 3.5.1.150 Continuation, variation or termination of PP
- 3.5.1.70 Residence qualification for PP - overview
- 3.5.1.90 Payability summary for PP
- 3.5.2.10 Qualification for DOP
- 3.5.2.30 Notification & recipient obligations for DOP
- 3.6.1.100 Continuation, variation or termination of DSP
- 3.6.1.50 Payability of DSP
- 3.6.1.70 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for DSP recipients
- 3.6.4.130 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for CP recipients
- 3.6.4.90 Payability of CP
- 3.6.7.175 Bereavement provisions for CA
- 3.6.7.32 Assessment of income for CA
- 3.6.7.34 Treatment of income components for CA
- 3.7.1.10 Qualification for SpB
- 3.7.1.110 Continuation, variation or termination of SpB
- 3.7.1.20 Payability of SpB
- 3.7.2.80 SpB for Australian citizen children & Australian permanent resident children in the custody of a non-permanent resident
- 3.7.4.10 Qualification for CrP - general provisions
- 3.7.4.40 Qualification for CrP - released prisoners
- 3.7.6.10 Qualification for DRA
- 3.8.1.10 Qualification for RA
- 3.8.1.106 Special RA rules for couples & families with children
- 3.8.1.20 Payability of RA
- 3.8.11 LLNS - qualification & payability
- 3.8.18 APWS - qualification & payability
- 3.8.3.10 Qualification for PES
- 3.8.3.20 PES qualifying study for tertiary students
- 3.8.3.90 Payability of PES
- 3.8.4.30 Determining the amount of the financial supplement
- 3.8.7.10 TAL - qualification & payability
- 3.9.1.10 Qualification for HCC - automatic issue
- 3.9.1.20 Qualification for LIC
- 3.9.2.10 Qualification for PCC
- 3.9.3.10 Qualification for CSHC
- 3.9.3.36 Target Foreign Income
- 3.9.3.38 Total net investment loss - net rental property loss
- 3.9.3.40 Treatment of income components for CSHC
- 3.9.3.60 Notification & recipient obligations for CSHC holders
- 4.1.9 Deprivation disregarded
- 4.12.2.20 Derivation & Attribution Periods
- 4.12.8.10 Reassessments of a Controlled Private Trust or Controlled Private Company
- 4.13.3.10 Overview of periodic compensation payments
- 4.13.3.20 Effect of periodic compensation on a compensation recipient
- 4.14.3.30 Special disability trusts - care & accommodation
- 4.14.3.35 Special disability trusts - discretionary spending
- 4.14.3.50 Reporting requirements for special disability trusts
- 4.14.4.10 Gifting to a special disability trust
- 4.14.4.20 Gifting concession for special disability trusts
- 4.2.1.20 Additional Free Area for Dependent Children
- 4.2.2 Benefits income test & limits
- 4.2.4.20 PPP income & assets tests & limits
- 4.2.5 CP income & assets tests
- 4.2.8.10 Dependent YA - parental income test
- 4.2.8.30 Independent YA - personal assets test & limits
- 4.2.9 CA Income Test
- 4.3.1.10 Determining the rate of income for benefits
- 4.3.1.25 Determining the assessable income for pensioners below age pension age
- 4.3.2.30 Income exempt from assessment - legislated
- 4.3.5.10 How income from DVA is assessed
- 4.3.5.50 About DVA adequate means of support pension & DVA orphan's pension
- 4.3.5.70 About DVA Defence Force Income Support Allowance (DFISA) prior to 1 January 2022
- 4.3.5.72 DFISA bonus & DFISA bonus bereavement payment & the PBS prior to 1 January 2022
- 4.3.6.20 Overseas war pensions
- 4.3.9.30 Income from personal injury insurance schemes
- 4.3.9.40 Income from scholarships
- 4.4.1.40 Exemption of financial investments from deeming
- 4.4.2 Deeming of Financial Investments
- 4.6.2.10 General provisions for exempt assets
- 4.6.3.70 Exempting the principal home - care situations
- 4.6.4.30 Assessing retirement villages
- 4.6.5.30 Assessing property, real estate & unit trusts
- 4.6.6.10 General provisions for valuation of assets
- 4.6.7.10 General provisions for hardship
- 4.6.7.110 Notional ordinary income - person's farm used by a family member
- 4.6.7.120 Notional ordinary income - other farming situations
- 4.6.7.50 Unrealisable assets - unable or unreasonable to sell or borrow against
- 4.6.7.80 Notional ordinary income - overview
- 4.6.8.50 General provisions for the extended land use test
- 4.6.8.80 Land adjacent to the principal home transitional provisions
- 4.7.2.10 Assessable Income from Private Companies pre-01/01/2002
- 4.8.2.20 Early release of superannuation
- 4.9.2.10 Characteristics of pre-20/09/2004 asset-test exempt income streams
- 4.9.2.15 Characteristics of asset-test exempt income streams purchased from 20/09/2004 & before 20/09/2007
- 4.9.8.20 Assessment of non-performing income streams
- 5.1.7.120 APWS - current rates
- 5.3.1.10 Taxation of payments & PAYG payment summary - individual non-business
- 5.3.1.20 Taxation deductions
- 5.3.1.30 Taxation exemptions related to death
- 5.4 Advance payments
- 5.4.1 Social security entitlement advance payment
- 5.4.1.10 Qualification for certain benefits & PPS advance payments
- 5.4.1.15 Qualification for certain pension advance payments
- 5.4.1.30 Formula for calculating certain benefits & PPS advance payments
- 5.4.1.35 Formula for calculating certain pension advance payments
- 5.4.1.40 Payment methods for advance payments - benefits & pensions
- 5.4.1.50 Repayment of advance payments - benefits & pensions
- 5.4.6.10 Qualification for special employment advance payments
- 5.4.6.20 SEA - return to work claims
- 5.4.6.30 SEA - income not received claims
- 5.4.6.50 Repayment of special employment advance payments
- 6.1.1.10 General provisions for income & assets reviews
- 6.2.6.10 SpB reviews - quarterly & annual intensive reviews
- 6.3.2 Jobseeker payment & youth allowance overpayments
- 6.3.4 Retirement overpayments
- 6.3.6 Disability & carer overpayments
- 6.7.1.45 Ten per cent recovery fee on debts from false or non-declaration of income from personal exertion
- 7.1.3 Payments & concession cards with limited portability
- 7.2.1 Pre-departure arrangements for portable payments
- 7.2.2 Proportional rate for portable pensions
- 7.2.4 Post departure requirements for portable payments
- 8 Administration Act Provisions
- 8.1.1.10 General claim requirements
- 8.1.1.30 Claim lodgement - payment specific provisions
- 8.1.1.50 When to lodge a claim - payment specific provisions
- 8.1.1.70 Incorrect claims
- 8.1.1.80 Claims from prisoners
- 8.1.3.10 Provision of information
- 8.1.3.20 Providing TFN Information
- 8.1.6 Residence requirements
- 8.2.1 Transfers
- 8.3.1 Start days - general provisions
- 8.3.2 Start days for early claims
- 8.3.3.10 Backdated start days - general provisions
- 8.4 Payment methods
- 8.4.1.50 Rounding
- 8.4.2 Immediate payments
- 8.4.2.20 Hardship advance payment
- 8.4.3 Protection of payment
- 8.5.3 Responsibilities of a nominee
- 10.1.100 General principles glossary
- 1.1.M.120 Member of a couple
- 2.2.5.40 Discretion to treat a person as not being a member of a couple for a special reason - section 24
- 3.7.2.40 SpB for people not residentially qualified for other payments
- 5.1.8.10 Common pension rates
- 5.1.8.20 Common benefit rates
- 1.2.7.180 Approved program of work supplement (APWS) - description
- 3.11.3.110 Work for the Dole
- 3.11.3.120 Work Skills and Projects (WSP) - RAES
- 3.8.18 APWS - qualification & payability
- 5.1.7.120 APWS - current rates
- 1.1.C.206 Commercial care arrangements (CA, CP)
- 3.6.4.110 Assessment of CP claim - other factors
- 4.13.1.25 Treatment of specific compensatory type payments
- 4.3.2.31 Income exempt from assessment - specifically approved
- 4.3.6.11 Income from overseas payments - specific payments
- 1.1.M.20 Major disaster (AGDRP)
- 1.2.6.20 Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment (AGDRP) - description
- 1.1.N.130 Notional continuous period of receipt of income support payments (JSP, YA)
- 3.1.6.10 General payability provisions
- 3.2.1.05 Qualification for JSP
- 3.2.3.10 Qualification for YA
- 5.4.1.10 Qualification for certain benefits & PPS advance payments
- 5.4.1.15 Qualification for certain pension advance payments
- 5.4.6.10 Qualification for special employment advance payments
- 1.1.B.20 Behaviours (CA (child), CP (child))
- 1.1.C.160 Chronological age (CA (child), CP (child))
- 1.1.C.17 Care load (CP (child), CA (child))
- 1.1.D.170 Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) (CP (child), CA (child))
- 1.1.F.250 Functional abilities (CA (child), CP (child))
- 1.1.F.260 Functional age (CA (child), CP (child))
- 1.1.S.240 Special care needs (CA (child), CP (child))
- 1.1.T.170 Treating health professional (THP) (CA, CP)
- 1.1.V.20 Validation of THP questionnaire (CA (child))
- 3.6.12 Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) (DCLA)
- 3.6.12.10 Overview of the DCLAD (Child) scoring regime
- 3.6.12.210 DCLAD (Child) ACL questionnaire scoring steps 19 & 20 - calculating the ACL adjusted grand total
- 3.6.12.220 Referrals to the Carer Specialised Assessment Team (CSAT)
- 1.1.T.170 Treating health professional (THP) (CA, CP)
- 3.6.12 Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) (DCLA)
- 1.1.D.30 Date of qualification of the age pension (PBS)
- 1.1.Q.37 Qualifying residence period (QRP)
- 1.2.3.10 Age pension (Age) - description
- 3.4.1.10 Qualification for Age
- 3.4.3.60 Continuation, variation or termination of WA
- 3.4.7.20 Registration for PBS
- 4.6.8.50 General provisions for the extended land use test
- 5.1.8.60 Transition to JSP - transitional arrangements for former recipients of WP
- 6.2.3 Retirement & widows reviews
- 7.1.2 Payments with unlimited portability
- 7.2.3 Portability determinations, dates of effect & transfers while overseas
- 9.1.1 Australian citizenship
- 1.1.F.220 Full year period (PBS)
- 1.1.P.110 Part-year period (PBS)
- 1.1.P.320 Post-75 membership (PBS)
- 1.2.3.70 Pension bonus scheme (PBS) & pension bonus bereavement payment (PBBP) - description
- 3.4.7.10 Qualification for PBS
- 3.4.7.20 Registration for PBS
- 3.4.7.80 Claiming the PBS bonus
- 4.3.5.72 DFISA bonus & DFISA bonus bereavement payment & the PBS prior to 1 January 2022
- 1.1.D.30 Date of qualification of the age pension (PBS)
- 3.4.1.10 Qualification for Age
- 3.4.7.20 Registration for PBS
- 1.1.B.80 Bonus period-full year & part year bonus periods (PBS)
- 1.1.C.260 Compensation preclusion period (PBS)
- 1.1.C.50 Carer preclusion period (PBS)
- 1.1.D.230 Disposal preclusion period (PBS)
- 1.1.N.90 Non-accruing member of the PBS
- 3.4.7.20 Registration for PBS
- 3.4.7.80 Claiming the PBS bonus
- 1.1.N.90 Non-accruing member of the PBS
- 3.4.7.40 Accruing membership of PBS
- 3.4.7.50 Non-accruing membership of PBS
- 3.4.7.80 Claiming the PBS bonus
- 1.1.B.80 Bonus period-full year & part year bonus periods (PBS)
- 1.1.S.63 Second accruing membership period (PBS)
- 1.1.B.80 Bonus period-full year & part year bonus periods (PBS)
- 1.1.L.20 Last bonus period (PBS)
- 1.1.L.80 Lodgement period (PBS)
- 3.4.7.30 Bonus periods for PBS
- 3.4.7.60 PBS work test
- 1.1.P.120 Passing the work test (PBS)
- 3.4.7.60 PBS work test
- 3.4.7.90 PBS - how to determine a part year bonus period