Budget Savings (Omnibus) Act 2016 (55 of 2016)

Schedule 21   Closing carbon tax compensation to new welfare recipients

Part 7   Single income family supplement

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

133   At the end of Subdivision A of Division 6 of Part 3

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57GDA Cessation of eligibility

(1) Section 57G does not apply to an individual on or after the commencement of this section unless the individual was eligible for single income family supplement in respect of the day before that commencement.

(2) Section 57G does not apply, and never again applies, to the individual from the start of the first day on or after the commencement of this section on which the individual ceases to be eligible for single income family supplement.

(3) If:

(a) an individual is eligible for single income family supplement in respect of a period falling within the income year (the relevant income year ) ending on the day before the commencement of this section or within a later income year (also the relevant income year ); and

(b) in order to become entitled to be paid single income family supplement in respect of that period, the individual is required to make a claim for payment of single income family supplement for a past period; and

(c) the individual does not make the claim in accordance with section 65KD of the Family Assistance Administration Act;

then section 57G of this Act does not apply, and never again applies, to the individual from the start of the first income year after the relevant income year.