Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020 (22 of 2020)

Schedule 11   Additional support for income support recipients

Part 1   Main amendments

Social Security Act 1991

39   At the end of Part 3.19

Add:

1210B COVID-19 supplement

(1) If:

(a) a person is receiving a social security payment (other than parenting payment, youth allowance, jobseeker payment or sickness allowance); and

(b) the social security payment is determined in an instrument under subsection (2);

then:

(c) the rate of the person's social security payment is increased by the amount of the COVID-19 supplement for the period determined in that instrument in relation to that payment; and

(d) the amount of the COVID-19 supplement is the fortnightly amount determined in that instrument in relation to that payment.

(2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make a determination for the purposes of paragraphs (1)(b), (c) and (d). The Minister must be satisfied that the determination is in response to circumstances relating to the coronavirus known as COVID-19.

(3) This section ceases to apply at the end of the period covered by subsection 646(2).