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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1224E

Debts arising from advance payments of social security entitlements

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person has received an advance payment of a social security entitlement (the first entitlement ) or an instalment of such an advance payment; and

  (b)   the first entitlement ceases to be payable to the person; and

  (c)   when the first entitlement ceases to be payable, the person has not repaid the whole of the advance payment or instalment; and

  (d)   the person does not receive another social security entitlement immediately after the first entitlement ceases to be payable;

the amount that has not been repaid is a debt due to the Commonwealth.

Note:   For social security entitlement see subsection   23(1).


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