Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Remote Area Family Day Care Start Up Payment) (DEWR) Determination 2007 (Cth)

Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Remote Area Family Day Care Start Up Payment) (DEWR) Determination 2007

Social Security Act 1991

I, Sue Kruse, Assistant Secretary, Income Support Programme Branch 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                      10 July 2007

Sue Kruse

Assistant Secretary, Income Support Programme Branch

Part 1        Preliminary

1   Name of determination

This determination is the Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Remote Area Family Day Care Start Up Payment) (DEWR) Determination 2007.

2   Commencement

This determination commences on the day after the day on which it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3   Interpretation

In this determination:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991;

Remote Area Family Day Care Start Up Payment means a payment (up to $5,000.00 per recipient), made to a person on behalf of the Commonwealth by the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as part of the 2007-08 Federal Budget, in order to assist that person to undertake required changes to their home or its immediate surrounds in order for them to provide quality child care;

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 a person receives a Remote Area Family Day Care Start Up Payment, any amount received by the person is an exempt lump sum.

5   Application—Exempt Lump Sums

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