'The Special Rate of Pension may be granted to members of the Forces who have been blinded as the result of War Service, and to members who are totally and permanently incapacitated (i.e. incapacitated for life to such an extent as to be precluded from earning other than a negligible percentage of a living wage)'
'The special or TPI rate pension was designed for severely disabled veterans of a relatively young age who could never go back to work and could never hope to support themselves or their families or put away money for their old age. It was never intended that the TPI rate would become payable to a veteran who, having enjoyed a full working life after war service, then retires from work possibly with whatever superannuation or other retirement benefits are available to the Australian work force.
If a person has had the usual span of a working life or has retired voluntarily or has left employment for reasons other than accepted disabilities, a T&PI pension is not payable.'
The term accepted condition/s refers to both war-caused and defence-caused injury and war-caused and defence-caused disease.
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