Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

This section applies if:

immediately before the day (commencing day) on which this Part commences, a social security pension was payable to a war widower or war widow; and

on the commencing day:

a decision (adverse decision) under the Social Security Act affecting the rate at which the pension should be paid to the war widower or war widow (or a decision confirming the adverse decision) is still subject to review following an application for review under Chapter 6 of the Social Security Act; or

an application for review of an adverse decision (or of a decision confirming the adverse decision) may still be made under Chapter 6 of that Act, as a result of which a favourable determination may be made under that Act that will take effect (if made) as provided under whichever backdating provision is applicable to the determination; and

the war widower or war widow does not make an election under subsection 45E(2).

Chapter 6 of the Social Security Act continues to apply until no further application for review of the adverse decision can be made under that Chapter.

This Act has effect as if on the commencing day:

the war widower or war widow had made a claim for income support supplement under section 45I; and

the Commission had determined under section 45Q that:

the claim was to be granted; and

income support supplement was payable to the war widower or war widow at a rate equal to the rate (operative rate) at which the social security pension was payable to him or her immediately before the commencing day; and

in the event that the operative rate of the social security pension is varied as a result of the review—the war widower or war widow had made, as provided in subsection (4), an application for review of the decision of the Commission concerning the rate of which income support supplement was to be paid to him or her.

For the purposes of paragraph (3)(c), an application for review by the war widower or war widow is taken to have been made:

if immediately before the commencing day the adverse decision under the Social Security Act was being reviewed by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal—to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal under section 175 of this Act; and

in any other case—to the Commission under section 57A of this Act.

In this section:

in the case of an age pension—subsection 80(2) or (4) of the Social Security Act; or

in the case of a disability support pension—subsection 115(2) or (4) of the Social Security Act; or

in the case of a wife pension—subsection 184(2) or (4) of the Social Security Act; or

in the case of a carer payment—subsection 209(2) or (4) of the Social Security Act; or

in the case of disability wage supplement—subsection 431(2) or (4) of the Social Security Act.