Social Security (Top Up of Pension Bonus — Specified Circumstances) Determination 2018 (Cth)

Social Security (Top Up of Pension Bonus — Specified Circumstances) Determination 2018

I, Kathryn Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make this Determination under subsection 93L(6) of the Social Security Act 1991.

Dated 27 March 2018

Kathryn Campbell Secretary of the Department of Social Services

1 Name of Determination This Determination is the Social Security (Top Up of Pension Bonus — Specified Circumstances) Determination 2018.

2 Commencement This Determination commences on 1 April 2018.

3 Authority This Determination is made under subsection 93L(6) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4 Definition In this Determination: Act means the Social Security Act 1991. 5 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6 Specified circumstance For paragraph 93L(1)(b) of the Act, a specified circumstance is that:

(a) the Secretary makes a determination described in paragraph 93L(1)(a) of the Act because of a reduction, since the start day for the person's pension bonus, in either or both of the following:

(i) the value of the person's assets;

(ii) the person's ordinary income; and

(b) the determination takes effect on a day that is more than 13 weeks after the start day; and

(c) the determination is made because:

(i) an administrative error in determining the person's rate of age pension was made before the end of the 13‑week period following the start day; or

(ii) the person had given the Secretary, before the end of the 13‑week period following the start day, incorrect information about the value of the person's assets or the person's ordinary income.