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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 567FA

Qualification for payment under this Subdivision

    A person is qualified for a lump sum payment under this Subdivision if:

  (a)   the person is qualified for youth allowance on a day (the relevant day ); and

  (b)   youth allowance is payable to the person on the relevant day; and

  (c)   on or before the relevant day but after the commencement of this section, the person was a member of a couple and stopped being a member of a couple because the person's partner died; and

  (d)   the person is not a member of a couple on the relevant day; and

  (e)   when the person's partner died, both the person and the person's partner were Australian residents; and

  (f)   if the person is a man or a woman who was not pregnant when her partner died--the relevant day occurs in the period of 14 weeks starting on the day of the death of the partner; and

  (g)   if the person is a woman who was pregnant when her partner died--the relevant day occurs:

  (i)   in the period of 14 weeks starting on the day of the death of the partner; or

  (ii)   in the period (the relevant period ) starting on the day of the death of the partner and ending when the child is born or the woman otherwise stops being pregnant;

    whichever ends later; and

  (h)   the relevant day is the day that the person first notifies the Secretary of the person's partner's death; and

  (i)   if the person is qualified for payments under section   567 in respect of the person's partner's death--the person has made a choice under subsection   567(2).


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