Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Australian Capital Territory Government's Community Inclusion and Household Debt Pilot Project) (DEWR) Determination 2005 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Social Security Act 1991

Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Australian Capital Territory Government’s Community Inclusion and Household Debt Pilot Project) (DEWR) Determination 2005

I, Lynne Curran, Group Manager, Research, Evaluation and Legislation Group and a delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, make this determination under paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991.

Dated            12 September   2005.

Lynne Curran

Group Manager, Research, Evaluation and Legislation Group

Part 1        Preliminary

1   Name of determination

This determination is the Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Australian Capital Territory Government’s Community Inclusion and Household Debt Pilot Project) (DEWR) Determination 2005.

2   Commencement

This determination commences on 23 March 2005.

3   Interpretation

In this determination:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

Community Inclusion and Household Debt Pilot Project means a project by that same name, administered by the Australian Capital Territory Government, that promotes community inclusion, by providing intensive case management to a number of participants who are at risk of social exclusion due to unmanageable debt levels.

social security payment has the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1991.

Part 2        Exempt Lump Sums

4   Amount or class of amounts

(1) Paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Act provides that the Secretary may determine that an amount or class of amounts received by a person, is an exempt lump sum.

(2)       If an eligible person:

(a)       has received an amount under the Community Inclusion and Household Debt Pilot Project; and

(b)       is in receipt of a social security payment;

then the amount received by the person under the Community Inclusion and Household Debt Pilot Project, is an exempt lump sum.

5   Application—Exempt Lump Sums

An amount, or class of amounts, received by a person referred to in subsection 4(2) is an exempt lump sum for the purposes of paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Act from the date that the amount was received.