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This determination modifies the Social Security Act 1991 in relation to the partner income reduction rate for jobseeker payment by reducing it from 60 per cent to 25 per cent of the person’s partner income excess.
Administered by: Treasury
Registered 24 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Repealed by Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020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. 4) Determination 2020

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

Dated 23 April 2020

Anne Ruston

Minister for Families and Social Services

 

  

  


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

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

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

4............ Modifications................................................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Modifications of the Social Security Act 1991                                                   2

 


1  Name

                   This instrument is the Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 4) 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

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Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

27 April 2020.

27 April 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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  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 a Schedule to this instrument is determined for the purposes of item 40A of Schedule 11 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020.

Schedule 1Modifications of the Social Security Act 1991

  

1  Variation of point 1068‑G11

Point 1068‑G11 of the Social Security Act 1991 is varied by omitting the point and substituting:

Partner income reduction

1068‑G11  If a person has a partner income excess, the person’s partner income reduction is an amount equal to the following percentage of the person’s partner income excess:

                     (a)  60%, unless paragraph (b) applies;

                     (b)  in relation to jobseeker payment and the period beginning on 27 April 2020 and ending at the end of the period covered by subsection 646(2)—25%.