Section 1 — Social Security Act 1991: Correspondence of pensions, benefits and allowances

(1) Subject to paragraph (2)(k), for the purposes of this Schedule, a pension, benefit or allowance under this Act and a pension, benefit or allowance under the 1947 Act that have the same name correspond to each other. (2) For the purposes of this Schedule: (a) a wife’s pension under the 1947 Act and a wife pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (b) a carer’s pension under the 1947 Act and a carer pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (c) a sole parent’s pension under the 1947 Act and a sole parent pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (e) a class B widow’s pension under the 1947 Act and a widow B pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (f) an age pension under the 1947 Act payable because of section 26 of that Act and a special needs age pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (g) an invalid pension under the 1947 Act payable because of section 29 of that Act and a special needs invalid pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (h) a wife’s pension under the 1947 Act payable because of subsection 37(2) of that Act and a special needs wife pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (i) a sole parent’s pension under the 1947 Act payable because of subsection 46(1) of that Act and a special needs sole parent pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (j) a class B widow’s pension under the 1947 Act payable because of subclause 4(1) of Schedule 1B to that Act and a special needs widow B pension under this Act correspond to each other; and (k) a job search allowance under the 1947 Act and a job search allowance under this Act in respect of a person who has not turned 18 correspond to each other; and (l) an unemployment benefit under the 1947 Act in respect of a person who has not been in receipt of an old benefit or old benefits for longer than 12 months and a job search allowance under this Act correspond to each other; and (m) an unemployment benefit under the 1947 Act in respect of a person who has been in receipt of an old benefit or old benefits for longer than 12 months and a newstart allowance under this Act correspond to each other; and (n) a widowed person allowance under the 1947 Act and a bereavement allowance under this Act correspond to each other. (3) In paragraphs (2)(l) and (m): old benefit, in relation to a person, means: (a) an unemployment benefit under the 1947 Act; or (b) a job search allowance under the 1947 Act; or (c) in the case of a person who, but for the abolition of the allowance formerly paid by the Department of Employment, Education and Training and known as the Formal Training Allowance, would have paid that allowance on 1 July 1991—that allowance.