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This determination amends the Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 1) Determination 2020 and modifies the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to give people who attempt to contact or actually contact Services Australia between 23 March and 29 March until 8 May 2020 to complete their social security payment claim and have their payment backdated until 23 March 2020 (or the day they qualify for payment if this is a later day). This determination also ensures that people who contact Services Australia between 30 March 2020 and 21 April 2020 will have until 8 May 2020 to complete their claim and have their payment backdated to the date they make contact (or the day they qualify for payment if this is a later day).
Administered by: Treasury
Registered 17 Apr 2020
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR12-May-2020
Tabled Senate12-May-2020
Date of repeal 31 Dec 2020
Repealed by Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020
Repealing Comments Repeal of enabling provision by Schedule 11, item 40A(6).
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Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 9) Determination 2020

I, Anne Ruston, Minister for Families and Social Services, make the following determination.

Dated   17 April 2020

Anne Ruston

Minister for Families and Social Services

 

  

  


Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedule 1—Modifications........................................................................................... 1

5............ Schedule 2—Amendments............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Modifications of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999            2

Schedule 2—Amendments                                                                                                                          3

Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 1) Determination 2020  3

 


1  Name

                   This instrument is the Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 9) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

30 March 2020.

30 March 2020

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under item 40A of Schedule 11 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020.

4  Schedule 1—Modifications

                   Each modification of the operation of a provision of a social security law (within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991) as set out in Schedule 1 to this instrument is determined for the purposes of item 40A of Schedule 11 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020.

5  Schedule 2—Amendments

                   Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 2 to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule, and any other item in that Schedule has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Modifications of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  

1  Variation of section 13

Section 13 of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 is varied by inserting the following subsection before subsection (4):

          (3D)  For the purposes of the social security law, if:

                     (a)  the Department is contacted by or on behalf of a person in relation to a claim for a social security payment on a particular day (the contact day); and

                     (b)  the contact day occurs during the period starting on 30 March 2020 and ending on 21 April 2020; and

                     (c)  the person:

                              (i)  is, on the contact day, qualified for the social security payment; or

                             (ii)  becomes, on a later day, qualified for the social security payment; and

                     (d)  the person lodges a claim for the social security payment no later than 8 May 2020;

the person is taken to have made a claim for the social security payment:

                     (e)  if the person was qualified for the payment on the contact day—on the contact day; or

                      (f)  if the person was qualified for the payment on a later day—on the later day.

Schedule 2Amendments

  

Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 1) Determination 2020

1  Item 1 of Schedule 2

Omit “19 April 2020” (wherever occurring), substitute “8 May 2020”.