Social Security Act 1991
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 1061ZZAC — Secretary’s decision
(1) If a person claims youth allowance, austudy payment or pensioner education supplement, the Secretary must decide whether the person is eligible to obtain financial supplement for a period that is…
Section 1061ZZBC — How to cancel financial supplement contract
(1) To exercise the right to cancel the contract, the person must give to the participating corporation written notice that the person is withdrawing his or her application for financial supplement.…
Section 1061ZZCC — Statement must be in approved form
A statement given in response to a notice under section 1061ZZBY must be in writing and in accordance with a form approved by the Secretary.
Section 1061ZZDC — Apportionment of financial supplement
Repayments of financial supplement made by the person before the notice was given to the person under subsection 1061ZZCZ(1) or (2) are taken to have been made: (a) first, in or towards the repayment…
Section 1061ZZEC — Transfer of corporation’s rights to Commonwealth
(1) On the giving of the notice to the corporation, the corporation’s rights referred to in subsection (2) or (3), as the case may be, are transferred to the Commonwealth by this subsection. (2) If…
Section 1061ZZFC — Repayable debt for an income year
(1) A person’s repayable debt for an income year is: (a) the person’s accumulated FS debt referred to in paragraph 1061ZZEZ(1)(b) in relation to that income year; or (b) if one or more amounts: (i)…
Section 1061ZZGC — How to give an assurance of support
(1) A person gives an assurance of support by: (a) delivering the assurance in writing in accordance with a form approved by the Secretary: (i) to a person apparently performing duties at a place…
Section 1061D — Lodgment of application
(1) The application must be lodged: (a) at an office of the Department; or (b) at a place approved for the purpose by the Secretary; or (c) with a person approved for the purpose by the Secretary.…
Section 1061ED — Amount of advance payment—pension PP (single)
Application (1) The amount of an advance payment of pension PP (single) is worked out according to this section. Amount of advance (2) The amount of the advance payment is the smallest of the…
Section 1061JD — Annual limit
The amount paid to a person in a calendar year by way of: (a) pharmaceutical allowance; and (b) advance pharmaceutical allowance; is not to exceed the total amount of pharmaceutical allowance that…
Section 1061KD — Period that Disaster Recovery Allowance is payable
A person’s Disaster Recovery Allowance is payable to the person for a period of 13 weeks.
Section 1061PAAD — Review of decisions
Part 4 of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 does not apply to a decision under this Division.
Section 1061PAD — Amount of AVTOP for a primary victim
(1) The Secretary must determine the amount of an AVTOP payable to a person who is a primary victim of a declared overseas terrorist act. (2) The determination must be made in accordance with…
Section 1061PD — Full-time students
For the purposes of this Subdivision, a person is a full-time student in respect of a course if: (a) in the case of a person who is enrolled in the course for a particular study period (such as, for…
Section 1061ZD — Extended qualification rule: former recipient of disability support pension and partner
Qualification (1) Subject to subsections (5), (5A) and (7), a person is qualified for a pensioner concession card for the period of 2 years starting on the day on which this section begins to apply…
Section 1061ZVBD — Amount of student start-up loan
The amount of a student start-up loan for which a person is qualified is $1,025. Note: The amount of the loan is to be indexed on each 1 January in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194).
Section 1061ZVED — Rounding of amounts
(1) If, apart from this section, a person’s accumulated SSL debt would be an amount consisting of a number of whole dollars and a number of cents, disregard the number of cents. (2) If, apart from…
Section 1061ZVHD — Notification of notices of assessment of tax
If: (a) the Commissioner is required to serve on a person a notice of assessment in respect of the person’s income of an income year under section 174 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936; and (b)…
Section 1061ZVJD — When person without tax file number incorrectly notifies number
(1) If: (a) the Commissioner is satisfied that the tax file number that a person notified to the Secretary for the purposes of paragraph 1061ZVBB(1)(c) or (2)(c): (i) has been cancelled since the…
Section 1061ZZAD — Revocation or variation of decision after review
(1) This section applies if: (a) the Secretary has made a decision under section 1061ZZAC in relation to a person; and (b) the Secretary has given the person a supplement entitlement notice under…
Section 1061ZZBD — When to cancel financial supplement contract
The person’s right may be exercised within 14 days (the cooling off period) after the day when the contract is made under section 1061ZZAX.
Section 1061ZZCD — Refusal or failure to comply with notice
(1) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person is required to comply with a notice; and (b) the notice is a notice under section 1061ZZBY; and (c) the person refuses or fails to comply with the…
Section 1061ZZDD — Liability of Commonwealth to corporation
The Commonwealth is liable to pay to the corporation the amount of any wrongly paid supplement that has not been repaid.
Section 1061ZZED — Liability of Commonwealth to corporation
The Commonwealth is liable to pay to the corporation an amount worked out, as at the end of the period of 4 weeks referred to in subsection 1061ZZDY(3), using the formula:
Section 1061ZZFD — Amounts payable to the Commonwealth
(1) The amount that a person is liable to pay under section 1061ZZEZ, in respect of: (a) the 2019-20 income year; or (b) a later income year; is the amount worked out using the formula: where:…
Section 1061ZZGD — Accepting or rejecting an assurance of support
(1) If an assurance of support is given under this Chapter, the Secretary must accept or reject the assurance. Accepting the assurance (2) The Secretary may accept the assurance, but only if: (a) he…
Section 1061E — Application may be withdrawn
(1) An applicant for an advance payment or a person acting on behalf of an applicant may withdraw an application that has not been determined. (2) An application that is withdrawn is taken not to…
Section 1061EE — Amount of advance payment—certain other social security payments
Application (1) The amount of an advance payment of benefit PP (partnered), youth allowance, austudy payment or jobseeker payment is worked out according to this section. Amount of advance (2) The…
Section 1061KE — Non-receipt of social security payment
(1) This section applies for the purposes of a provision of this or another Act if: (a) the provision provides a benefit (whether the benefit is a pension, benefit, payment, supplement or any other…
Section 1061PAAE — Department official
For the purposes of this Division, Department official means a person: (a) who: (i) is an official (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013) of the…
Section 1061PAE — Amount of AVTOP for a secondary victim
Secretary to determine amount of AVTOP (1) The Secretary must determine the amount of an AVTOP (the relevant AVTOP) payable to a person who is a secondary victim in relation to a close family member…
Section 1061PE — Concessional study-load students
(1) For the purposes of this Subdivision, there are 2 classes of concessional study-load students, namely: (a) 25% concessional study-load students; and (b) 66% concessional study-load students. (2)…
Section 1061ZVEE — Accumulated SSL debt discharges earlier debts
(1) The accumulated SSL debt that a person incurs on 1 June in a financial year discharges, or discharges the unpaid part of: (a) any SSL debt that the person incurred during the calendar year…
Section 1061ZVHE — Commissioner may defer making assessments
(1) A person may apply in the approved form to the Commissioner for deferral of the making of an assessment in respect of the person under section 1061ZVHC. (2) The application must specify: (a) the…
Section 1061ZVJE — When tax file numbers are altered
(1) If the Commissioner issues, to a person who has notified a tax file number to the Secretary for the purposes of paragraph 1061ZVBB(1)(c) or (2)(c), a new tax file number in place of a tax file…
Section 1061ZZAE — Transitional
(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement of this Chapter, a person held a notice given under Part 3 of the Social Security Student Financial Supplement Scheme 1998. (2) If the…
Section 1061ZZBE — Payments made during cooling off period
(1) In the cooling off period, the participating corporation must not make a payment to the person under the contract. (2) If the corporation makes a payment to the person under the contract within…
Section 1061ZZCE — Application overseas
This Subdivision extends to: (a) acts, omissions, matters and things outside Australia whether or not in a foreign country; and (b) all people irrespective of their nationality or citizenship.
Section 1061ZZDE — Liability of person to Commonwealth
(1) If the notice was given to the person under subsection 1061ZZCZ(1), the person is liable to pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the total of: (a) the amount that the Commonwealth is liable…
Section 1061ZZEE — Liability of person
(1) No amount is taken to be outstanding under the contract after the notice is given. (2) However, the person is liable to pay to the Commonwealth an amount worked out, as at the end of the period…
Section 1061ZZGE — Notices relating to an assurance of support
(1) If the Secretary accepts or rejects an assurance of support, he or she must give written notice of the acceptance or rejection to: (a) the person who gave the assurance; and (b) the Minister…
Section 1061F — Qualification for advance pharmaceutical allowance
(1) A person is qualified for an advance pharmaceutical allowance if: (a) the person is receiving a social security pension; and (b) the Secretary is satisfied that the person’s ordinary income is…
Section 1061PAF — AVTOP Principles
(1) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, determine the principles (the AVTOP Principles) to be applied for the purposes of determining the amount of an AVTOP payable to a person in relation…
Section 1061PF — Normal amount of full-time study
(1) For the purposes of this Subdivision, the normal amount of full-time study in respect of a course is: (a) if: (i) the course is a course of study within the meaning of the Higher Education…
Section 1061ZF — Issue of pensioner concession card
The Secretary must issue a pensioner concession card to a person who is qualified for such a card.
Section 1061ZVEF — Accumulated SSL debt discharged by death
(1) Upon the death of a person who has an accumulated SSL debt, the accumulated SSL debt is taken to be discharged. (2) To avoid doubt, this section does not affect any compulsory SSL repayment…
Section 1061ZVHF — Commissioner may amend assessments
(1) A person may apply in the approved form to the Commissioner for an amendment of an assessment made in respect of the person under section 1061ZVHC so that: (a) the amount payable under the…
Section 1061ZVJF — When tax file numbers are cancelled
(1) If the Commissioner cancels a tax file number issued to a person who has notified the tax file number to the Secretary for the purposes of paragraph 1061ZVBB(1)(c) or (2)(c), the Commissioner may…
Section 1061ZZAF — Applications for financial supplement
A person may apply for financial supplement only to a participating corporation.
Section 1061ZZBF — Person may waive right to cancel contract
The person may waive the right to cancel the contract.