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This definition applies to the following payments:
AWLR refers to any and all periods from the age of 16 to age pension age when a person was an Australian resident (section 7(2)).
It is a measure of a person's POTENTIAL working life and does NOT mean that a person had to have worked or paid taxes.
Act reference: SSAct section 7(2) An Australian resident is..., section 1221-B2 Australian working life residence (general)
A person's AWLR is used to calculate the rate of proportional pension. The AWLR used in a proportional portability (1.1.P.310) rate calculation is the number of WHOLE months of working life residence, PLUS one. The extra month is added once only, after totalling all working life residence including broken periods of months and days. When adding days, 30 days are equal to one whole month.
Example: Female born 4 June 1922.
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Periods of Residence |
Age |
AWLR |
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4.6.22 - 3.6.42 |
16 years on 4.6.38 |
4 years |
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2.5.65 - 8.4.72 |
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6 years, 11 months, 6 days |
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5.2.81 - 17.8.91 |
60 years on 4.6.82 |
1 year, 3 months, 30 days |
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Total working life residence |
= 11 years, 14 months, 36 days = 11 years, 15 months, 6 days = 147 months + 1 month = 148 months |
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Last reviewed: 20 September 2012
