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New Zealand Social Security Agreement With Australia

  • September 28, 2021

3. Where a person applies for payment for care under this Agreement, references to Australia shall also be read as references to New Zealand in the provisions of the Australian Social Security Act relating to qualification for the payment of carers. Applying to the remaining benefit received in accordance with point (b), the calculation of the corresponding rate in accordance with the Australian Social Security Act, on the basis of the amount calculated in accordance with point (a). One. You can continue to receive it in Australia for a maximum of 4 weeks, provided that you apply for help (health condition, injury, disability or totally blind) within four weeks of your departure from New Zealand. To do this, apply for a disability pension at your local centrelink office or at Centrelink International Services. 3. However, where an Australian resident is entitled to an Australian benefit under this Agreement or otherwise, the person`s Australian benefit rate shall be zero solely by reason of the application of Article 13(2)(c), that person shall be deemed to be in the recipient of an Australian benefit within the meaning of Article 1(1), point (b), and is therefore entitled to relevant and enforceable concessions under Australian social security legislation. with the exception of the Member States referred to in paragraph 4, benefits to be paid under Australian social security legislation shall not be taken into account; and if an Australian benefit is paid to a person, whether under the Agreement or otherwise, the rate of that benefit shall be fixed in accordance with Australian social security legislation, but in estimating that person`s income, no New Zealand benefit paid to that person shall be considered income. The amendments to reduce the period of portability to third countries under the agreement and to align and align with Australian social security legislation will make them compatible with the portability period applicable to all other PSD and Carer Payment beneficiaries. Where an amount paid by one of the Parties to a person for a benefit exceeds the amount duly due, where appropriate, under this Agreement or otherwise for that benefit, the competent institution of that other Contracting Party, at the request of the other competent institution, shall deduct from the regular payments, in accordance with this Article, sums equal to the total overpayment mentioned; which are due for the latter service.

One. Your payments may be affected. If you return within 26 weeks, you will continue to receive your payments while you are away. In particular, subsection 8(1) of the Act provides that a list specifying the terms of an agreement between Australia and another country where the agreement relates to reciprocity in matters of social security or pension insurance may be incorporated into the law by the provisions. 4. In the case of a person who has reached retirement age under this Agreement, the New Zealand superannuation or a veteran`s pension which would otherwise be payable to a person in New Zealand shall remain payable for up to 26 weeks after the person`s departure from New Zealand, if that person leaves New Zealand for the purpose of maintaining his or her habitual residence in Australia, and is applying for a New Zealand superannuation or veteran`s pension. in accordance with the agreement, within 26 weeks of that person`s departure from New Zealand. `social security law` means, in respect of a Contracting Party, the legislation of that Party referred to in Article 2; It shall be deducted or received by the competent institution of one of the Contracting Parties in accordance with paragraphs 3, 4 or 7 and shall be transferred to the other competent institution in accordance with what has been agreed between the competent institutions or in administrative arrangements referred to in Article 21. In the application of this Agreement by a Party in respect of a person, any concept not defined in this Article shall have the meaning ascribed to it by the social security law of a Party, unless the context does not require otherwise. . . .