Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018 (26 of 2018)

Schedule 3   Cessation of wife pension

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

105   Saving provisions - rates of payments

(1) Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, subsections 992X(2) and (3A) of the Social Security Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation to working out the amount of carer supplement at a time before, on or after that commencement.

(2) Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, section 1061JU of the Social Security Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to working out the amount of a crisis payment in relation to days before that commencement.

(3) Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, table items 6 and 21 in Module L of the Youth Allowance Rate Calculator in section 1067G of the Social Security Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation to:

(a) working out if a person is a family member in relation to another person for the purposes of Part 2.11 of that Act and that Rate Calculator in relation to days before that commencement; or

(b) working out if a person is exempt from the parental income test for the purposes of that Rate Calculator in relation to days before that commencement.

(4) Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, paragraph 1070(a) of the Social Security Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to working out the rate of rent assistance in relation to wife pension for days in respect of which wife pension is payable to a person.

(5) Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 3.15A of the Social Security Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation to wife pension payable to a person in respect of days occurring before, on or after that commencement.