Veterans' Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Reform) Act 2009 (81 of 2009)

Schedule 4   Supplements

Part 5   Other amendments

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

172   Subsections 58A(7) and (8)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(7) If:

(a) an amount of an instalment of service pension or income support supplement is payable to a person in relation to a particular day; and

(b) on that day, the person is residing in Australia and:

(i) is in Australia; or

(ii) is temporarily absent from Australia and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 13 weeks; and

(c) there is no election by the person under subsection 60A(1) in force on that day; and

(d) apart from this subsection, the portion of the instalment corresponding to that day would be less than the person's minimum daily rate, but more than a nil amount;

the amount of that portion of the instalment is to be increased to the person's minimum daily rate.

(8) In this section:

minimum daily rate , for a person, means 1/364 of the person's minimum pension supplement amount.