3.4.9.40 Supplementary Benefits & Employment Assistance for BVA Recipients

Other departmental benefits

BVA recipients MAY also qualify for the following benefits, if they meet the relevant qualification criteria:

• rent assistance,
• pension supplement,
• remote area allowance,
• clean energy advance,
• clean energy supplement,
• crisis payment,
• pensioner concession card, and
• CDEP participant supplement (CPS).

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.8.1 RA - Qualification & Payability, 3.12.1 Pension Supplement - Qualification & Payability, 3.8.8 RAA - Qualification & Payability, 3.7.4 CrP - Qualification & Payability, 3.9.2 PCC - Qualification Provisions, 3.15.1 CEA - Qualification & Payability, 3.15.2 CES - Qualification & Payability

Employment incentives

BVA recipients may receive the following employment incentives:

• access to working credits,
• payment of certain supplementary benefits during the employment income nil rate period,
• continued use of their PCC for a certain period, and
• able to have their payment resumed during the employment income nil rate period if they report a fall in income sufficient for BVA to be payable again.

Act reference: SSAct section 23(4A) Despite subsection (4)…, section 23(4AA) For the purposes of subsection (4A)…, section1061ZEA Further extended qualification rule: loss of payment because of employment income (PCC)

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.1.11 Working Credit, 3.1.12 Employment Income Nil Rate Period, 3.9.2.30 PCC due to Employment

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Last reviewed: 20 March 2013