A

ABN
Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme
Above General Rate/AGR
ACAT
Accepted condition
Accepted disabilities
Accommodation Bond
Accommodation Bond Balance
Accommodation Charge
accommodation payment
Accruing member
Accumulation phase
Active involvement in Farm
Active involvement with a primary production enterprise
Actively involved with a sugarcane farm
Actual rate (DFISA ceased 2022)
ADB
Additional Death Benefit
Adequate financial consideration
Adequate Means of Support pension/AMS pension
ADF
ADJR
Adjusted % partnered rate
Adjusted % single rate
Adjusted annual rate of ordinary income
Adjusted disability pension/Adjusted DP (ceased 2022)
Adjusted income
Adjusted net primary production income
Adjusted net value
Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)
Adopted/adopted child
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AGA
Age Component Amount
Age Equalisation
Age Pension Age
Age Pension/AP
Agent
AGR
AHS
Allied country
Allied Veteran
Allotted Units/Allotted for duty
Allowable household expenses
Annual notional partnered pension rate
Annual notional single pension rate
Annual payment
Another party
Anxiety
Appointor/Appointer
Apportionment
Apprentice
Appropriate person
Approved deposit fund
Approved Facility
Approved Hospital Authority
Approved Medical Practitioner
Approved personal care support schemes
Arm's length
Arm's length amount
ART
Assessable period
Assessment Day
Assessment period
Asset
Asset attribution percentage
Asset-test exempt income stream
Asset-tested income stream (lifetime)
Asset-tested income stream (long term)
Asset-tested income stream (short term)
Assets reduced rate
Assets Test
Assets value limit (AVL)
Assistance agency
Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
Associate
Attendant Allowance
Attested
Attributable stakeholder
Attribution of assets
Attribution percentage
Attribution period
Audiologists
Australia/External Territories
Australian Contingent
Australian Defence Force
Australian Mariner
Australian Resident
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) small superannuation account
Australian Valuation Office (AVO)
Authority Prescription Form
Available money
Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE)

B

Balance of probabilities
Base pension
Base Quarter
basic fee
BCWD
Bereavement Payment
Bereavement payment in respect of disability compensation payment
Bereavement payment in respect of service pension
Bereavement period
Blind/Blinded/Blindness
Board
Britain/British
British official public service pension
British social security pension
British state pension
Bullion

C

Camoufleurs
Campaign medal
CAP
Capacity for work
Capital Accounts
Care Recipient
Carer
Carer payment
Carer preclusion period
Category A
Category B
Category C
CDB
CEI
Ceiling rate
Centrelink
Charge exempt resident
Child of a veteran
CIS
Claims Management System (CMS)
Clean energy advance
Clean energy advance daily rate
Clean energy advance period
Clean energy advance start date
Clean energy underlying payment
Cleanskin
Client Registration System/CRS
CLIK
Clinical Neuropsychology
Close relative
Collateral security
Commencement day
Commercial lease value
Commission/Repatriation Commission
Commonwealth country
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (CSHC)
Commonwealth veteran
Community based day program or facility
Community Pharmacist
Community-based health care facility
Commutation
Company
Compensable Condition
Compensation
Compensation affected component
Compensation affected pension (CAP)
Compensation offsetting
Compensation reduced pension
Compliance review
Complying superannuation fund
Composite assessment war widow
Composite cases
Concessional safety net
Conditions of release
Contemporary veteran
Contingent interest
Continuing Care Resident
Continuous full-time service
Continuous period of 15 years eligible interest
Continuous period of 15 years qualifying interest
Control
Control test
Controlled private company
Controlled private trust
Counselling
CPI/consumer price index
CPP
Crisis payment
Curtilage

D

DAFF
Daily Accommodation Contribution (DAC)
Daily Accommodation Payment (DAP)
Daily Care Fee
Damages
DAME EDNA
Data Matching Agency/DMA
Date of Effect
DCP
De facto relationship
De facto/unmarried couple/unmarried partner
Death Processing System/DPS
Debt Management and Recovery System/DMRS
Declared associate
Declared private company
Deductible amount
Deeming Provisions
Defence Force Income Support Allowance/DFISA (ceased 2022)
Defence Force raised by a Commonwealth or allied country
Defence Service
Defence-caused Death
Deferred annuity (DA)
Defined benefit income stream
Delegate of the Repatriation Commission/Delegate
Departmental Medical Officer
Departmental or Repatriation hospital or institution
Departmental Review System/DRS
Dependant
Dependant's pensions/Dependant rate of disability pension/Dependants' pensions
Dependent child add-on
Dependent child component
Dependent Child/Dependent Children
Deposit money
Depression
Deprivation period
Deprivation provisions
Deprived asset
Derivation period
Designated entity
Designated pension
Designated private company
Designated private trust
Designated year
DFISA bonus (ceased 2022)
DFISA-like (ceased 2022)
DH&A
DH&FS
Diagnostic Agent
Direct control interest
Direct Deduction System/DDS
Direct voting interest
disability compensation (treatment)
Disability Compensation Allowances
Disability Compensation Payment (formerly Disability Pension)
Disability income (ceased 2022)
Disability income rent test (ceased 2022)
Disability Support Pension
Discretionary Legislation
Discretionary Trust
Disease
Disposal of assets
Disposal of income
Disposal preclusion period
Disqualifying Provision
Disregarded Asset
DMO
Domestic or family violence
Domicile
Double Amputee
Double Orphan
Draw down phase
Drawings
DRCA
DRS reference number
DRS worklist
Drugs/Medicines
DSS
Dual Eligibility
DVA
DVA
DVA pension
DVA pensions that can be advanced

E

EATERS
EATS war widow
education allowance
Education Entry Payment/EdEP
Effective land use test
Eligible civilians
Eligible Descendant
Eligible interest
Eligible person for the Motor Vehicle Compensation Scheme
Eligible termination payment (ETP)
Eligible War Service
Eligible widow or former partner of a qualifying farmer
Eligible widow/widower or former partner of a qualifying sugarcane farmer
Emergency Short Term Home Relief (ESTHR)
Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)
Employee
Employment income
Enemy/Hostile forces of the enemy
Energy supplement
Energy supplement
Engaged in providing assistance or support
Entity
Entry contribution
Epidemiology
Episode of Care
Event that gave rise to the person's entitlement to compensation
Event/Date of Event
Evidentiary certificate
Exceptional circumstances
Exchange trading system
Excluded company
Excluded payment
Excluded trust
Exempt assets
Exempt partnered person
Exerci luctus quia roto vero. Bene duis ex jumentum natu volutpat.
Extended deeming
Extended land use test
Extra Allowable Amount/EAA
Extra Service Care
Extreme Disablement Adjustment (EDA) Rate

F

F/E
FaHCSIA
FaHCSIA agreement countries/Agreement countries
Family law affected (FLA) income stream
Family member
Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Child
Family Tax Benefit A
Family Tax Benefit B
Family trust
Farm
Farm Enterprise
Female veteran pension age
financial adviser
Financial Assets
Financial hardship for the purpose of crisis payment
Financial hardship/severe financial hardship
Financial institution
Financial investment
Financial year
First available pension pay day
FOI
Foreign superannuation fund
Foreign superannuation pension
Form approved by the Commission
Former Refugee
Full time education
Full year period
Funeral bond
Funeral bond threshold

G

Gainful work
Gainful work income
GARP
General Service Medal
Generic Update Interface for DVA Entitlements/GUIDE
Genuine investor
GLOSSARY or glossary
Gold Card
Governing rules
Government in Exile 5C(1) VEA
Government Subsidised Care
Granny Flat
Group
GST
Guaranteed amount
Guaranteed period
Guardian allowance
Guidance

H

HACC
Hardship amount
Hazardous Service
HCMC
HIC
High Level Care
High level of residential aged care
HIMN
Historical value
Home equity conversion
Homeowner/s

I

I/R
Illness separated couple
Immediate family member
In-home respite
In-house asset
Inability to obtain appropriate clinical management
Incapacity
Incentive allowance
Income
Income attribution percentage
Income free area
Income reduced rate
Income stream
Income Support
Income support benefit
Income support payment
Income support pension
Income support supplement/ISS
Income Test
income-tested care fee
Income/Assets Reduction Limit (IARL)
Indexation
Indigent Circumstances
Ineligible Property Owner
Initial Claim/Informal Claim
Injury
Integrated Payments System (IPS)
Intermediate Rate Disability Compensation Payment
Interned/detained
IPS
ISS

L

Lawful Custody
Legally irrecoverable
Life expectancy
Life interest
lifetime cap
Linked review
Listed security
LMO
Loan
Lodgment period
LOE
Loss of Earnings Allowance
Low Level Care
Low level of residential aged care
LSG
Lump sum preclusion period

M

MAGPIES
Maintenance income
Maintenance income test
Major area of accommodation
Majority voting interest
Male Total Average Weekly Earnings (MTAWE)
Malignant Neoplasia
Managed Investment
Market value
Markout
Married person/Married
Master
Maximum basic entitlement
Maximum basic rate (MBR)
Maximum payment rate
Maximum rate
Maximum transitional income support supplement
Maximum transitional pension rate
MBS
MCRS
means tested care fee
Means Testing/Means Tested
Member
Member of a couple rate/not a member of a couple rate
Member of a couple/Partnered
Member of the Defence Force
Member of the forces
Members of a Peacekeeping Force
MEPI
Military Compensation
Military Compensation & Rehabilitation Service (MCRS)
Military Compensation Scheme (MCS)
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (MRCC)
Minimum pension supplement amount
MRCA
MRI

N

N/A
NAFCOM
National disability insurance scheme (NDIS) amount
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participant
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan
National serviceman
Nauru
Naval General Service Medal
Near Relative
NEIS Payments
Net asset backing method
NFCU
Non Discretionary Trust
Non-accrual period
Non-accruing member
Non-accruing period
Non-commutation funded income stream
Non-departmental hospital or institution
Non-Government Subsidised Care
Non-illness separated spouse
Non-Warlike service
Norfolk Island
Not a member of a couple
Notional assessment
Notional rate (ceased 2022)
Notional rent assistance/notional rate of rent assistance (ceased 2022)
NSW Medically Acquired HIV Trust

O

Occurrence
Officer
Official war correspondents
OHS
OMM
Open Arms - Veterans and Families Counselling
Operational area
Operational Service
Ordinary income
Ordinary/Adjusted income free area
Ordinary/adjusted income test
Orphan's pension
Other Dependant

P

PADP
Papua New Guinea
PARS
Part year period
Partially asset test exempt income stream
Partner
Partnered Rate
Partnership
Past contributions
Patient Care Plan
Patient contribution
Payability
Payment destination
PBLCI
PBS Schedule
Peacekeeping Service
Peacetime Service
Penalty unit
Pension Age
Pension bonus bereavement payment/PBBP
Pension Bonus Scheme
Pension MBR factor
Pension Payday/DVA pension payday
Pension Period
Pension supplement
Pension supplement basic amount
Pension valuation factor
Pensioner Education Supplement/PES
Pensions Information Processing System/PIPS
Period of hostilities
Periodic payments period
Permanent incapacity/permanently incapacitated
Personal details used for data matching exercise
Personal effects and household contents
Pharmaceutical Allowance co-payment
Pharmaceutical Allowance safety net threshold
Pharmaceutical Allowance/PA
Pharmaceutical Benefits
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme/PBS
PIPS
PMKeys
Portability
Post 70/75 member
Practicing lawyer
Pre-1 July 83 excess contributions
Preclusion events
Prepaid funeral
Prescribed Educational Scheme
Prescribed Rate
Prescribed registered relationship
Prescribed Status
Prescribed Student Child
Prescription Form
Preservation age
Primary FLA income stream
Primary production
Primary Production Attribution Threshold
Primary production enterprise
Principal home
Principal Medical Adviser
Prior Financial Authorisation
Private annuity
Private land
Private land use test
Profit
Prohibited relationship
Proper Claim/Formal Claim
Property owner
Provisional commencement day
Provisional rate of ISS
PTSD
Purchase amount
Purchase price
Purchased income stream

Q

QA
QAO
Qualification for Age Pension
Qualifying Age
Qualifying farmer
Qualifying Interest
Qualifying service
Qualifying sugarcane farmer
QUASARS

R

RAP
Rate last payable
Real Assets
Reasonable Satisfaction
Reasonableness test
Recoverable debt
Recuperative Care
Reference quarter
Refundable Accommodation Contribution
Refundable Accommodation Deposit (RAD)
Regular care child
Rehabilitation Goals
Relative
Relevant Farm Asset
Relevant number
Relevant state land law
Relevant sugarcane farm assets
Remainder interest
Remote Area
Remote area allowance (RAA)
Rent assistance
Rent assistance free area/RA free area (ceased 2022)
Rent Increased Pension
Repatriation Health Card - For All Conditions
Repatriation Health Card - For Specific Conditions
Repatriation Medical Authority (RMA)
Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Card (Orange Card)
Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS)
Repatriation Pharmaceutical Reference Committee (RPRC)
Repatriation Private Patient Principles (RPPPs)
Repatriation Private Patient Scheme (RPPS)
Reportable superannuation contributions
Reserve forces
Residential Aged care
Residential Aged Care Facility
Residential care amount
Residential respite
Residual capital value
Respite care
Respite care couple
Retirement Age
Retirement Village
Reversionary interest
Review officer
Right of Review
Right to accommodation for life
Roll-over
Rolling period
RPBS Schedule
RTCPS
RTS
RTU

S

Sale Leaseback Agreement
Saved Child/Children
SCA test day
Scheme
SDoH
Sea going ship
Seaman
SEATO
Secondary FLA income stream
Self-contained living area
Self-funded retirees
Seniors Concession Allowance (SCA)
Seniors supplement
Service documents
Service pension/er/SP
Severe disability
Severe Injury Adjustment (SIA)
Shared Renters
SIA
Significant part of capital
Significant part of income
Significant part of labour
Significant part of labour and capital
Single Rate
Small Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority Fund
Social Security Benefit/Centrelink benefit
Social security law
Social Security payment
Social Security Pensions/Centrelink pensions
Sole Trader
Sound medical-scientific evidence
Source agency
Source test
Special Assets Value Limit
Special date of eligibility
Special disability trust
Special missions
Special Rate (T&PI)
Special Residence
Specialist Medical Review Council (SMRC)
Specific Disability Allowance
Specific review
SR
SRC
SRCA
SSA
SSA clean energy qualifying payments
Standard rules
Statement of Principles
Statutory trusts
Step-child/step-children
Substantial Level of Care
Sufficiently influenced
Sugarcane farm
Sugarcane farm enterprise
Suitably qualified financial adviser
Superannuation benefit
Superannuation contributions surcharge
Superannuation fund
Superannuation holding accounts reserve
Superannuation law
Superannuation pension
Supplementary amount/Payment

T

T&PI
Taper rate
Tax file number (TFN)
Tax free component
Tax Year
Tax-exempt pension supplement
Taxation law
Telephone Allowance (TA)
Testamentary Trust
The Mark Fitzpatrick Trust
The statute of limitations
Threshold amount
Threshold day
TIA
Total net value
Transitional rules
Treatment
Treatment Accounts System (TAS)
Treatment Principles (TPs)
Trustee
TTI
Two Hectares

U

UA test day
UIN
Undeducted Purchase Price (UPP)
Underlying payment
Unidentifiable Medical Condition
United Kingdom/UK
Units
Unlisted public security
Unrealisable asset
Utilities Allowance (UA)

V

Valuable Consideration
Value of forename
VCES
VCES
VEA
VER
Veteran
Veteran Payment
Veterans Supplement
Veterans' Children Education Scheme (VCES)
Veterans' Compensation
Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
Veterans' Information Enquiry Window/VIEW
Veterans' Review Board (VRB)
Veterans' Vocational Rehabilitation Scheme (VVRS)
VHC
Visiting Medical Officer (VMO)

W

W/W
War like operations
War widow's/widower's pension
War Widow/Widower
War widow/widower—pensioner
Warlike service
White Card
Wholly or Substantially Dependent
Widow
Widower
Wife pension
Work Bonus
Work Bonus Bank
Work Bonus Income
Work test