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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 592L

Amount of relocation scholarship payment

  (1)   The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $4,000 if the person has not received a student relocation payment (see subsection   (7)) before.

Note:   The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1   January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections   1190 to 1194).

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if:

  (a)   the person has, at any time before the calendar year containing the qualification time, undertaken full - time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and

  (b)   at a time that was both while the person was undertaking that study and more than 6 months before the qualification time, the person was either:

  (i)   independent because of subsection   1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); or

  (ii)   required to live away from home (see section   1067D).

  (3)   The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $1,000 if neither subsection   (1) nor subsection   (4) applies.

Note:   The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1   January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections   1190 to 1194).

  (4)   The amount of a relocation scholarship payment to a person is $2,000 if:

  (a)   in 1 or more calendar years (the prior years ) that precede the calendar year containing the qualification time, the person undertook full - time study in a course that, had the person undertaken it at the qualification time, would have been an approved scholarship course at that time; and

  (b)   in 1 or 2 (but no more) of the prior years:

  (i)   the person was, while undertaking such study, either independent because of subsection   1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11) or required to live away from home (see section   1067D); or

  (ii)   the person received a student relocation payment (see subsection   (7)); and

  (c)   subsection   (5) or (6) applies to the person.

Note:   The amount of a relocation scholarship payment for which a person is qualified on or after 1   January 2013 is indexed annually in line with CPI increases (see sections   1190 to 1194).

  (5)   This subsection applies to a person if, at the qualification time:

  (a)   the person is not independent (see section   1067A); and

  (b)   the person is required to live away from home (see section   1067D); and

  (c)   the home of a parent of the person is in a regional or remote location (see subsection   (7)).

Note:   For parent see subsection   5(1).

  (6)   This subsection applies to a person if:

  (a)   at the qualification time, the person is independent because of subsection   1067A(3), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (11); and

  (b)   at the time 6 months before the person first undertook study described in paragraph   (4)(a) of this section, the person's usual place of residence was in a location that at the qualification time is a regional or remote location (see subsection   (7)).

Definitions

  (7)   In this section:

"regional or remote location" means:

  (a)   a location categorised as Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia, under the Remoteness Structure as defined in subsection   1067A(10F); or

  (b)   Norfolk Island.

"student relocation payment" means any of the following:

  (a)   a relocation scholarship payment;

  (b)   a payment under the ABSTUDY Scheme known as an ABSTUDY relocation scholarship payment;

  (c)   a payment known as a relocation scholarship payment under the scheme referred to in section   117 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act;

  (d)   a payment known as a relocation scholarship payment under the scheme referred to in section   258 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act;

  (e)   the amount or value of a disqualifying accommodation scholarship.


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