Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment – Disregarded Income) Specification 2018 (Cth)

Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment – Disregarded Income) Specification 2018

I, Kathryn Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make this Specification under subsection 93WB(2) of the Social Security Act 1991.

Dated   27 March 2018

Kathryn Campbell

Secretary of the Department of Social Services

1  Name of Specification

This Specification is the Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment – Disregarded Income) Specification 2018.

2  Commencement

This Specification commences on 1 April 2018.

3  Authority

This Specification is made under subsection 93WB(2) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Definition

In this Specification:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

5  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6  Specification of income to be disregarded

For subparagraph 93WB(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, compensation within the meaning of subsection 17(2) of the Act that is paid in the form of periodic payments is specified.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment — Disregarded Income) Specification 2007

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument