Social Security (Income Exempt Lump Sum Queensland Stolen Wages Reparation Payment Scheme) Determination 2015 (Cth)

Social Security (Income Exempt Lump Sum – Queensland Stolen Wages Reparation Payment Scheme) Determination 2015

I, Andrea Wallace-Green, Acting Branch Manager, Rates and Means Testing Policy Branch, Department of Social Services, delegate of the Secretary, determine under paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991 (SSA), that an amount specified in Part 2 is an exempt lump sum for the purposes of the definition of “ordinary income” in subsection 8(1) of the SSA.

Dated this 14^th day of December 2015.

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ANDREA WALLACE-GREEN

Part 1         Preliminary

1   Name of determination

This determination is the Social Security (Income Exempt Lump Sum – Queensland Stolen Wages Reparation Payment Scheme) Determination 2015.

2   Commencement

This determination commences on the day after registration.

3   Definitions

In this determination:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

Queensland Stolen Wages Reparation Payment Scheme means a scheme operated by the Queensland Government to provide ex gratia lump sum payments to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people whose wages and savings were controlled by the Queensland Government under a legislative regime known as the “Protection Acts”.

reparation payment means a payment made by the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships of the Queensland Government in accordance with the Queensland Stolen Wages Reparation Payment Scheme.

Part 2         Exempt Lump Sums

4   If a person has received a reparation payment then the amount is an exempt lump sum.