Attachment D

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ATTACHMENT D

Operational Advice 99/013

Type: INVOLUNTARY (including redundancies where there is little or no choice due to Agency imperatives)

Status	Incapacity status immediately after separation	Incapacity entitlement with no employment	Rehabilitation and suitable employment	Subsequent employment or capacity for employment
No incap In their pre-injury job In a 'tailored' job	1. then nil 2. likely to be total incapacity	1. N/A (but recurrences or aggravations of existing injuries will need to be considered as they occur) 2. % NWE increasing with NWH as per s19(3) - (S* + AE†)	Rehab - No Suitable employment = with Commonwealth only	Apply AE - only if Commonwealth employment offered
On GRTW or not at work	As per total incapacity	% NWE increasing with NWH as per s19(3) - (S + AE †)	Rehab - Yes Suitable employment - with Commonwealth only	Apply AE - only if Commonwealth employment offered
Top up to 100% NWE	As per total incapacity	% NWE increasing with NWH as per s19(3) - (S + AE†)	Rehab - Yes Suitable employment - with Commonwealth only	Apply AE - only if Commonwealth employment offered

* – Superannuation amount and superannuation contribution

† – Apply AE only if Commonwealth employment offered to employee

Type: VOLUNTARY (by substitution or through deliberate effort on the part of the employee)

Status	Incapacity status immediately after separation	Incapacity entitlement with no employment	Rehabilitation and suitable employment	Subsequent employment or capacity for employment
No incap In their pre-injury job In a 'tailored' job	Nil	Nil entitlement	Rehab - No Suitable employment - any	N/A
1. GRTW 2. not at work	1. Deemed same GRTW 2. Total Incapacity	1. Calculated on the estimate of AE of the job or level they would have held had they completed their RTW % NWE increasing with NWH as per s19(3) - (S + AE)	1. Rehab - No Suitable employment - any 2. Rehab - yes Suitable employment - any	1. Apply earnings Apply AE as per labour market (not as per Commonwealth employment) 2. Apply earnings Apply AE as per labour market (not as per Commonwealth employment)
Top up to 100% NWE	Deem AE as income at date of separation	75% - (S + AE)	Rehab - No Suitable employment - any	Apply earnings

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