1 After section 204

204A Use of tax file numbers

(1)

The Secretary may require the Commissioner of Taxation to provide the Secretary with information about people, including tax file numbers, that was contained in TFN declarations lodged with the Commissioner under Division 3 of Part VA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 .

(2)

Information provided to the Secretary under a requirement made under subsection (1) may be used only for the following purposes:

(a)

to detect cases in which amounts of social security payments under the social security law have been paid when they should not have been paid;

(b)

to verify, in respect of persons who have made claims for social security payments under the social security law, the qualification of those persons for those payments;

(c)

to establish whether the rates at which social security payments under the social security law are being, or have been, paid are, or were, correct.