Section 592L — Social Security Act 1991: Amount of relocation scholarship payment

(1) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $4,000 if the person has not received a student relocation payment (see subsection (7)) before. Note: The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1 January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194). (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if: (a) the person has, at any time before the calendar year containing the qualification time, undertaken full-time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and (b) at a time that was both while the person was undertaking that study and more than 6 months before the qualification time, the person was either: (i) independent because of subsection 1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); or (ii) required to live away from home (see section 1067D). (3) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $1,000 if neither subsection (1) nor subsection (4) applies. Note: The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1 January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194). (4) The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $2,000 if: (a) in 1 or more calendar years (the prior years) that precede the calendar year containing the qualification time, the person undertook full-time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and (b) in 1 or 2 (but no more) of the prior years: (i) the person was, while undertaking such study, either independent because of subsection 1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11) or required to live away from home (see section 1067D); or (ii) the person received a student relocation payment (see subsection (7)); and (c) subsection (5) or (6) applies to the person. Note: The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1 January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194). (5) This subsection applies to a person if, at the qualification time: (a) the person is not independent (see section 1067A); and (b) the person is required to live away from home (see section 1067D); and (c) the home of a parent of the person is in a regional or remote location (see subsection (7)). Note: For parent see subsection 5(1). (6) This subsection applies to a person if: (a) at the qualification time, the person is independent because of subsection 1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); and (b) at the time 6 months before the person first undertook study described in paragraph (4)(a) of this section, the person’s usual place of residence was in a location that at the qualification time is a regional or remote location (see subsection (7)). Definitions (7) In this section: regional or remote location means: (a) a location categorised as Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia, under the Remoteness Structure as defined in subsection 1067A(10F); or (b) Norfolk Island. student relocation payment means any of the following: (a) a relocation scholarship payment; (b) a payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme known as an ABSTUDY relocation scholarship payment; (c) a payment known as a relocation scholarship payment under the scheme referred to in section 117 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act; (d) a payment known as a relocation scholarship payment under the scheme referred to in section 258 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act; (e) the amount or value of a disqualifying accommodation scholarship.