Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 1) Act 2018 (17 of 2018)

Schedule 2   Veteran payment

Part 2   Consequential amendments

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

302   After subsection 53D(4)

Insert:

(4A) If:

(a) a veteran begins to receive a veteran payment on a day; and

(b) on the day before that day the veteran was receiving an age or invalidity service pension;

then, for the purposes of this section, the veteran is taken to be receiving an age or invalidity service pension, and paragraph (1)(a) is taken to be satisfied, while the veteran is receiving that veteran payment.