Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

This section applies if:

a person is subject to the income management regime; and

a 2020 economic support payment is payable to the person.

The following provisions have effect:

the Secretary must deduct from the 2020 economic support payment the deductible portion of the payment;

an amount equal to the deductible portion of the payment is credited to the Income Management Record;

an amount equal to the deductible portion of the payment is credited to the person’s income management account.

For the purposes of subsection (2), the deductible portion of a 2020 economic support payment is 100% of the amount of the payment.