Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018 (26 of 2018)

Schedule 2   Cessation of widow B pension

Social Security Act 1991

64   Section 1221 (at the end of Module A of the Pension Portability Rate Calculator)

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Former recipients of widow B pension

1221-A3 If:

(a) immediately before 20 March 2020, a woman was receiving a widow B pension under Part 2.8; and

(b) the woman had become qualified for the widow B pension because of the woman's partner's death; and

(c) on a day on or after 20 March 2020, the woman's rate of age pension is worked out as mentioned in section 1220A; and

(d) on that day, that partner's period of Australian working life residence (immediately before that partner's death) exceeds the woman's period of Australian working life residence on that day; and

(e) on that day, the woman is not a member of a couple;

then, for the purposes of working out that rate of age pension, the woman's period of Australian working life residence is taken to be equal to that partner's period of Australian working life residence (immediately before that partner's death).