Payability refers to whether or not a pension or benefit is payable to a person.  A person may meet the basic eligibility criteria for a pension or benefit but that pension or benefit may not be payable to them for a number of reasons such as:

• income or assets in excess of the relevant limits
• failure to provide a tax file number;
• receipt of another pension or benefit;
• compensation recovery action;
• overpayment recovery action;
• failure to take reasonable action to obtain a comparable foreign pension; or
• imprisonment.