Social Security Act 1991

If the rate of the person’s social security payment is to be calculated in accordance with the Youth Allowance Rate Calculator, the specific requirement applicable to the social security payment is that:

the person:

is independent but is not an accommodated independent person; or

is not independent and is required to live away from home; and

the person does not have a partner with a rent increased pension; and

if:

the person is not a member of a couple, or is a member of an illness separated couple, a respite care couple or a temporarily separated couple; and

the person is entitled to be paid family tax benefit;

the person’s maximum Part A rate of family tax benefit does not include rent assistance;

the person’s maximum Part A rate of family tax benefit includes rent assistance and clause 38J of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance Act applies to reduce the person’s Part A rate of family tax benefit; and

if:

the person is a member of a couple, other than an illness separated couple, a respite care couple or a temporarily separated couple; and

the person, or the person’s partner, is entitled to be paid family tax benefit;

the person’s, or the person’s partner’s, maximum Part A rate of family tax benefit does not include rent assistance;

the person’s, or the person’s partner’s, maximum Part A rate of family tax benefit includes rent assistance but clause 38J or 38K of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance Act applies to reduce the person’s, or the person’s partner’s, Part A rate of family tax benefit.

In this section, accommodated independent person and required to live away from home have the same meanings as in Part 3.5.