1224E
In forceDebts arising from advance payments of social security entitlements
Volume 4Chapter 3, Part 3.12A to Chapter 6, sections 1157A-1263, Schedule 1A
Chapter 5Overpayments and debt recovery
Part 5.2Amounts recoverable under this Act
1224E Debts arising from advance payments of social security entitlements
(1)
If:
(a)
a person has received an advance payment of a social security entitlement (the first entitlement) or an instalment of such an advance payment; and
(b)
the first entitlement ceases to be payable to the person; and
(c)
when the first entitlement ceases to be payable, the person has not repaid the whole of the advance payment or instalment; and
(d)
the person does not receive another social security entitlement immediately after the first entitlement ceases to be payable;
the amount that has not been repaid is a debt due to the Commonwealth.
Note:
For social security entitlement see subsection 23(1).
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