11.6 Non-taxable Compensation Payments

 

Compensation type payments

The following payments that are made by DVA are considered to be compensation, and are not taxable:

  •  [glossary:Disability Compensation Payment:574],
  •  [glossary:war widow's/widower's pension:705], and
  •  [glossary:orphan's pension:233].
Additional allowances that are non-taxable

Payments of the following allowances, where eligibility arises from a veterans' compensation payment, are non-taxable:

11.4.5 Bar to Portability - Pension Claimed During Temporary Return to Australia

Circumstances where portability is barred

VEA→

Service Pension and Income Support Supplement are not payable outside Australia to a former resident of Australia who:

  • returns to Australia, and
  • lodges a claim for service pension, or ISS within 12 months of their return, and
  • leaves Australia again before the 12 months has ended.
Exemption from bar to portability

VEA→

Receipt of Gifts or Benefits

Impartiality may not be compromised by acceptance of gifts or benefits

The Public Service Act, 1999 specifies that a public servant must not take advantage, or seek to take advantage, of their official position in order to obtain a benefit for either themselves or someone else. Benefits that may compromise the ethics of a decision maker include:

11.5.4 Payment by Group Payment

Last amended: 27 October 2004

What is group payment

Group payment involves combining the pension instalments for a group of pensioners resident at one institution (eg a nursing home) and making one direct credit to that institution to cover the total of all combined instalments of the individuals within the group.    

11.2.2 Instalments and Dates of Effect for Payments, Pensions and Allowances

 

Instalments of disability compensation payment and war widow's/widower's pension

[glossary:Disability compensation payments:574] and [glossary:war widow's/widower's pensions:705] are paid fortnightly in arrears. An instalment is payable in respect of the number of days in each fourteen day pension period for which the person is eligible and the pension is payable. (There is however no DCP/WWP entitlement in the payment/pension period in which the disability compensation payment recipient or war widow/er pensioner dies).