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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 198JA

Disposal of assets before 1 July 2002--profoundly disabled children or disabled children

  (1)   This section applies in determining whether a person (the carer ) who has been receiving a carer payment for caring for a care receiver who is a profoundly disabled child or care receivers each of whom is a disabled child continues to qualify for the pension.

  (1A)   This section applies only to disposals of assets that took place before 1   July 2002.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a person has disposed of one or more of the child's assets during a pension year of the carer; and

  (b)   the amount of that disposition, or the sum of that amount and of the amounts (if any) of other dispositions of the child's assets previously made during that pension year, exceeds $10,000;

the lesser of the following amounts is to be included in the value of the child's assets for the period of 5 years that starts on the day on which the disposition took place:

  (c)   the amount of the first - mentioned disposition;

  (d)   the amount by which the sum of the amount of the first - mentioned disposition of assets and of the amounts (if any) of other dispositions of assets previously made during that pension year exceeds $10,000.

Note 1:   For disposes of assets see section   198F.

Note 2:   For amount of disposition see section   198G.

Note 3:   Subsections   198D(1B) and (1D) provide that if the child lives with a parent, the assets listed in subsection   198D(1A) and paragraph   (1C)(b) are taken to be assets of the child.

  (3)   In this section:

"pension year" , in relation to a carer, means:

  (a)   the 12 months starting on the day the carer payment first became payable to the carer; or

  (b)   any preceding or following period of 12 months.


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