Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Act 2007 (89 of 2007)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

Part 1   Amendments

65   After subsection 118ND(1)

Insert:

(1A) If, immediately before a person (the care recipient ) who is being cared for by another person (the carer ) who is not the care recipient's partner dies:

(a) a social security pension or social security benefit was payable to the carer; and

(b) DFISA was payable to the carer;

then, for the purposes of the bereavement payment provisions of the Social Security Act, the rate of the pension or benefit that, if the care recipient had not died, would have been payable to the carer on a day during the bereavement period is increased by the rate of DFISA that would also have been payable to the carer on that day.

Note 1: For social security pension and social security benefit see section 5Q.

Note 2: For bereavement payment provision and bereavement period see subsection (4).