2.3.2 Effect on payability

2.3.2.1Schedule 6 VEA lists the steps involved in calculating the amount of income support payment to which a person is entitled. The pension rate may be increased by rent assistance, pharmaceutical allowance or remote area allowance.

2.3.2.2 — Other provisions which may affect a client's rate of payment include the operation of:

• Part IIIC VEA – Compensation Recovery rules
• Part IIIB, Subdivision D VEA – Financial Hardship rules
• Part IIIB, Subdivision E VEA – Pension Loans Scheme
• Part IVA VEA – Advance payments of pension and ISS

or the participation in:

• The New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)
• Veterans' Vocational Rehabilitation Scheme (VVRS).

2.3.2.3 — Because allowances constitute a component of the income support payment, loss or change of entitlement to these payments does not constitute loss of basic eligibility, but rather a change to payability.

2.3.2.4 — For example, if a veteran in receipt of service pension with rent assistance ceased to pay rent, or paid rent at a lower rate than previously advised, a change to the rate of pension payable could occur and an overpayment would exist if a retrospective reduction is required.