Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

This section applies if:

a person is subject to the income management regime; and

an additional economic support payment is payable to the person.

The following provisions have effect:

the Secretary must deduct from the additional 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 an additional economic support payment is 100% of the amount of the payment.