31.9.2 Long-term incapacity (non-taxable)

Long-term incapacity refers to 'cases in which the injured Reserve force member is unable or unlikely to return to Reserve service as a consequence of the compensable condition'.

There are two options for calculating the Reserve component of NWE in long-term incapacity cases:

• Current Year of Service, where the calculation is based on an estimate of the actual Reserve service which the client would have undertaken in the year of injury, or
• History of Service, where the calculation is based on the number of days of Reserve employment undertaken by the client in the 12 months before the injury.

Current Year of Service is the recommended method unless the client's Unit cannot provide the required information.