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Last amended: What is the Prisoner of War Recognition Supplement?
The Prisoner of War Recognition Supplement (POWR Supplement) is a fortnightly payment. It is payable from 20 September 2011. The POWR Supplement will be indexed on 20 September each year, starting in 2012, in line with the Consumer Price Index.
The POWR Supplement is a payment that provides special recognition of former surviving Australian prisoners of war (POWs), both veteran and civilian, for the severe hardships and deprivations they experienced. It is specifically targeted at and only payable to eligible surviving POWs.
The POWR Supplement is paid to eligible POWs alive on 20 September 2011.
The following veterans [3] are eligible:
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The following civilians are eligible:
The following are not eligible for the POWR Supplement:
As most eligible POWs were already known to the Department the majority did not need to submit a claim for the Supplement and have been automatically put into payment.
However, any POWs who were previously unidentified as POWs are required to claim before they can receive the POWR Supplement.
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Should a POW in receipt of the Supplement not wish to continue receiving the payment they must submit a written election not to receive it. For the Supplement not to be paid on a payday the election must have been received by DVA before the start of the relevant pay period.
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No bereavement payment of the POWR Supplement is payable to surviving partners or dependent children.
When a recipient of the supplement dies, the payment for the pension period during which the person dies is payable to the person's estate.
Should the POWR Supplement be paid for any pension periods after the period in which the POW died an overpayment may be raised.
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Prisoner of war recognition supplement
Section 115M(1) [16] VEA
Section 115M(3) [16] VEA
Section 115M(5) [16] VEA
For the purposes of Part VI of the VEA [32], a reference to a veteran is taken to be a reference to:
For the purposes of Part VII of the VEA [32], according to subsection 5C(1), veteran means a person (including a deceased person):
Interned means confined in a camp, building, prison, cave or other place (including a vehicle) or restricted to residing within specified limits.
An eligible civilian is a civilian who in World War 2 was:
Interned means confined in a camp, building, prison, cave or other place (including a vehicle) or restricted to residing within specified limits.
Interned means confined in a camp, building, prison, cave or other place (including a vehicle) or restricted to residing within specified limits.
Australia is defined in the Acts Interpretations Act 1901 and includes the following territories and Islands:
Subsection 5Q(1) of the VEA [33] provides specifically that the definition of Australia includes the external territories for many VEA purposes including Part III, IIIAB, some parts of Part IIIB, Parts IIID, VIIA, VIIC and sections 52ZO, 58A, and 132. Norfolk Island is currently the only external territory of Australia. For the above VEA sections, which cover service pension [3], [glossary:income support supplement:118], pension bonus, pension loans scheme, Veterans supplement, pension supplement [3] and Commonwealth Seniors Health Card [3] purposes it is considered to be part of Australia. The test of residing in Australia does not by itself satisfy the full definition of Australian Resident [3], as residency also requires Australian citizenship or the holding of a specified visa.
Papua New Guinea [3] and Nauru [3] have both previously been external territories of Australia. Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island, formerly regarded as separate islands, are now part of mainland NSW and Tasmania respectively.
Interned means confined in a camp, building, prison, cave or other place (including a vehicle) or restricted to residing within specified limits.
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[13] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#tgt-cspol_part6_ftn96
[14] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#tgt-cspol_part6_ftn97
[15] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#tgt-cspol_part6_ftn98
[16] https://clik.dva.gov.au/service-eligibility-assistant-updates/all-determinations-order-date-signed-oldest-most-recent/determinations-under-vea
[17] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn87
[18] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn88
[19] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn89
[20] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn90
[21] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn91
[22] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn92
[23] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn93
[24] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn94
[25] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn95
[26] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-2-applying-pension/21-claims
[27] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn96
[28] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-2-applying-pension/21-claims/213-lodging-or-withdrawing-claims
[29] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn97
[30] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-12-compliance-and-obligations/126-overpayments
[31] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16589#ref-cspol_part6_ftn98
[32] http://clik.dva.gov.au/legislation-library
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