1.NWE is [(military salary for rank/pay-level) + allowances] at discharge.
2.Using Doctracker, request confirmation of the client's salary and allowances at discharge (see 31.8).
3.Where the discharge is a medical discharge, use DocTracker to request confirmation of the date when any disability allowance cut short by the discharge, would have ceased anyway. (Note allowances for skills/qualifications are not affected i.e. have no end-date).
4.Calculate the NWE from the formula above, including any increases in the Military rates of pay/allowances on the date that they occurred, up to the date of discharge.
5.Reduce the NWE by the amount of any disability allowance included, from that point in time where the disability allowance would have ceased anyway (i.e. the date the allowance would have ceased even if the injury had not happened).
6.Adjust NWE by applying all of the Military pay/allowance scales which would have applied to the client, from the date of discharge to the last one prior to
1 October 2001.
7.Adjust NWE of ex-recruits, ex-officer cadets, ex-apprentices etc. in accordance with the incremental progression from the trainee classification to the lowest post-trainee classification (i.e. Pte Pay level 3 in the case of Army recruits or other service equivalents). Each increment should be implemented at the time it would have otherwise have come into effect 'but for' the injury.
8.Then, adjust NWE for Award and National Wage indexation increases after 1 October 2001 by annual application of the Wage Cost Index % for that year
(see 31.3.1 and 31.3.2).