Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 4) Determination 2020

I, Anne Ruston, Minister for Families and Social Services, make the following determination.

Dated 23 April 2020

Anne Ruston

Minister for Families and Social Services

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Modifications

Schedule 1—Modifications of the Social Security Act 1991

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 4) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under item 40A of Schedule 11 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020.

4  Modifications

  Each modification of the operation of a provision of a social security law (within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991) as set out in a Schedule to this instrument is determined for the purposes of item 40A of Schedule 11 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020.

Schedule 1—Modifications of the Social Security Act 1991

1  Variation of point 1068‑G11

Point 1068‑G11 of the Social Security Act 1991 is varied by omitting the point and substituting:

Partner income reduction

 1068‑G11 If a person has a partner income excess, the person’s partner income reduction is an amount equal to the following percentage of the person’s partner income excess:

 (a) 60%, unless paragraph (b) applies;

 (b) in relation to jobseeker payment and the period beginning on 27 April 2020 and ending at the end of the period covered by subsection 646(2)—25%.