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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FURTHER ASSISTANCE FOR OLDER AUSTRALIANS) ACT 2001 NO. 42, 2001 - SCHEDULE 2

- Extension of telephone allowance to holders of seniors health cards

Social Security Act 1991

1 After subsection 1061Q(4)

Insert:

(4A) A person is qualified for a telephone allowance if:

(a)
either:

(i)
the person is the holder of a seniors health card; or
(ii)
the person is temporarily absent from Australia for a continuous period not exceeding 26 weeks and was the holder of a seniors health card immediately before leaving Australia; and
(b)
the person is a telephone subscriber.

2 Subsection 1061S(1) (cell at table item 2, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:


Partnered (partner getting neither social security pension nor social security benefit), partner not holder of a seniors health card and person getting pension or benefit before 12 March 1992

3 Subsection 1061S(1) (cell at table item 3, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Partnered (partner getting neither social security pension nor social security benefit), partner not holder of a seniors health card and person not getting pension or benefit before 12 March 1992

4 Subsection 1061S(1) (cell at table item 4, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Either: (a) partnered (partner getting pension or benefit); or
(b) partnered and partner is a holder of a seniors health card; and partner not getting telephone allowance

5 Subsection 1061S(1) (cell at table item 5, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Either: (a) partnered (partner getting pension or benefit); or
(b) partnered and partner is a holder of a seniors health card; and partner getting telephone allowance

6 After subsection 1061S(3)

Insert:

(3A) For the purposes of working out a person's rate of telephone allowance under subsection (1), the person's partner is taken to be the holder of a seniors health card if the partner:

(a)
is temporarily absent from Australia for a continuous period not exceeding 26 weeks; and

(b)
was the holder of a seniors health card immediately before leaving Australia.

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

7 Subsection 48(4)

Repeal the subsection and insert:

(4) In this section:

telephone allowance payday means:

(a)
for a person who is qualified for telephone allowance otherwise than under subsection 1061Q(4A)—the first day on which an instalment of a social security periodic payment would normally be paid to the person on or after any of the following:

(i)
1 January;
(ii)
20 March;
(iii)
1 July;
(iv)
20 September; and
(b)
for a person who is qualified for telephone allowance under subsection 1061Q(4A)—any of the following:

(i)
1 January;
(ii)
20 March;
(iii)
1 July;
(iv)
20 September;
or the first working day after that day if that day is not a working day.

working day means a day other than:

(a)
a Saturday; or

(b)
a Sunday; or

(c)
a day that is a public holiday or bank holiday in Canberra or Sydney.

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

8 After subsection 118Q(3)

Insert:

(3AA) A person is eligible for a telephone allowance if:

(a)
either:

(i)
the person is the holder of a seniors health card; or
(ii)
the person is absent from Australia and was the holder of a seniors health card immediately before leaving Australia; and
(b)
the person is a telephone subscriber.

9 Subsection 118S(1)

Omit "and (3)", substitute ", (3) and (4)".

10 At the end of section 118S

Add:

(4) The rate of telephone allowance for a person is half the amount of the rate specified in subsection (1) if:

(a)
the person is the holder of a seniors health card; and

(b)
the person is a member of a couple; and

(c)
the person's partner is receiving a telephone allowance under:

(i)
this Act; or
(ii)
the Social Security Act; and
(d)
the person is living with the person's partner in the same home.


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