Section 45UF — Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986: Annual pension rate

(1) For the purposes of this Division, a person’s annual pension rate is set out in the following table: Annual pension rate Item In this case: The person’s annual pension rate is: 1 The person: (a) is granted an age service pension or a partner service pension; and (b) is not permanently blind; and (c) is not a war widow/war widower—pensioner the rate that would be the person’s provisional payment rate under method statement 1 in subpoint SCH6-A1(2), ascertained as at the date of the grant, if it were assumed that the person’s maximum payment rate were the sum of: (a) the person’s maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and (b) the person’s pension supplement basic amount 2 The person: (a) is granted an age service pension or a partner service pension; and (b) is permanently blind; and (c) is not a war widow/war widower—pensioner the sum of: (a) the person’s maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and (b) the person’s pension supplement basic amount; ascertained as at the date of the grant 3 The person: (a) is granted an age service pension; and (b) is not permanently blind; and (c) is a war widow/war widower—pensioner the lesser of the following rates (or, if the rates are the same, the first rate): (a) the person’s ceiling rate under point SCH6-A4, ascertained as at the date of the grant; (b) the rate that would be the person’s provisional payment rate under method statement 1 in subpoint SCH6-A1(2), ascertained as at the date of the grant, if it were assumed that the method statement applied and the person’s maximum payment rate were the sum of: (i) the person’s maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and (ii) the person’s pension supplement basic amount 4 The person: (a) is granted an age service pension; and (b) is permanently blind; and (c) is a war widow/war widower—pensioner the person’s ceiling rate under point SCH6-A4, ascertained as at the date of the grant 5 The person: (a) is granted income support supplement; and (b) is not permanently blind the rate that would be the person’s provisional payment rate under method statement 5 in subpoint SCH6-A1(6), ascertained as at the date of the grant, if it were assumed that the person’s maximum payment rate were the sum of: (a) the person’s maximum basic rate under Module B of the Rate Calculator; and (b) the person’s pension supplement basic amount 6 The person: (a) is granted income support supplement; and (b) is permanently blind the person’s ceiling rate under point SCH6-A4, ascertained as at the date of the grant (2) The annual pension rate is to be worked out under subsection (1) by disregarding the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Income Reporting and Other Measures) Act 2020.