The primary objective of the Income Support Review Program is to ensure pensioners are receiving the correct amount of income support pension [2] to which they are entitled under the VEA. There are two types of reviews:
Under the VEA, income support pensioners are required to disclose information about changes in their personal or financial circumstances that may affect the amount of pension they receive. A notification from a pensioner of their changed personal or financial circumstances is processed as a pensioner-initiated review (PIR).
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Income support pension is:
A specific review is an event-based, department-initiated review, based on anticipated or known changes to a pensioner's personal or financial circumstances, likely to impact on the rate of pension.
Examples include:
A compliance review is a risk-based, department-initiated review based on risk profiling. Risk profiling identifies assessments containing high-risk characteristics such as volatile income and asset items. Examples of risk groups are pensioners who have not had their income and assets reviewed for a number of years or assessments with high-risk property that has not been revalued for many years.
Links
[1] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/16766%23comment-form
[2] https://clik.dva.gov.au/%23
[3] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16766#tgt-cspol_part12_ftn173
[4] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-12-compliance-and-obligations/121-recipient-obligations
[5] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/16766#ref-cspol_part12_ftn173