Section 1073BD — Social Security Act 1991: Daily attribution of employment income for amounts not elsewhere covered in this Division

(1) This section applies for the purposes of working out a person’s (the recipient’s) rate of payment of a social security pension or a social security benefit if: (a) the recipient’s rate of payment of the pension or benefit is worked out with regard to the income test module of a rate calculator in this Chapter; and (b) a person (the employee) who is: (i) the recipient; or (ii) the recipient’s partner; is taken, under a provision of this Act (except section 1073A, 1073B, 1073BA or 1073BB), to have received an amount of employment income during the whole or a part of a particular instalment period of the recipient. (2) The employee is taken to receive, on each day in that instalment period, an amount of employment income worked out by dividing the total amount of the employment income referred to in paragraph (1)(b) by the number of days in the instalment period. Employee ceases to be recipient’s partner (3) Despite the previous subsections, if: (a) the employee is or was the recipient’s partner; and (b) the employee is taken, under subsection (2), to have received an amount of employment income on a day; and (c) the employee and the recipient are not members of a couple on that day; that amount is taken to be nil.