Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025 (17 of 2025)

Schedule 7   Application and transitional provisions

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004

11   At the end of Part 3

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14A Offsetting VEA and DRCA payments against Additional Disablement Amount

(1) For the purposes of section 220C of the MRCA, the maximum weekly amount of Additional Disablement Amount that could be payable to a person, at a time, must also be reduced by one half of the fortnightly rate at which any pension because of paragraph 13(1)(b) or 70(1)(b) of the VEA is payable to the person at that time.

(2) For the purposes of section 220C of the MRCA, the maximum weekly amount of Additional Disablement Amount that could be payable to a person must also be reduced by the sum of any previous payments of a lump sum to the person under section 24, 25 or 27 of the DRCA, converted to a weekly amount in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of subsection 122(2) of this Act.