To be eligible for the energy supplement (ES) a person must be:
Special rules apply for some UPs.
More [4]The underlying payments and benefits (UPs) for DVA clients are:
A person can be eligible for multiple ES payments. The following table demonstrates how people may receive more than one ES.
Group One People can receive an ES for one of... | Group Two ...and an ES for one of... |
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VEA service pension | VEA Disability Compensation Payment |
CSHC holders with grandfathered status | MRCA special rate disability pension |
Gold card holders | MRCA permanent impairment payment |
VEA war widow(er)'s pension |
|
MRCA wholly dependent partner payment |
|
VCES fortnightly education allowance |
|
MRCAETS fortnightly education allowance |
|
Social Security Act 1991 energy qualifying payments, eg age pension |
|
ABSTUDY allowance |
|
Multiple entitlement exclusion rules prevent a person receiving more than one ES from within the same group.
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Where a person has eligibility for the general rate of Disability Compensation Payment ES and MRCA permanent impairment ES, MRCA permanent impairment ES is paid.
In all other cases, if a person is eligible for more than one ES from within the same group, the highest ES out of those they are eligible for is paid.
Section 62A VEA [6] (DP)
Section 62B VEA [6] (WW)
Section 62E VEA [6] (CSHC & GC)
Section 118PB [6] VEA (PI)
Section 209A [7] MRCA (SRDP)
Section 238A [7] MRCA (WDP)
Section 3A.11.1 [8] VCES
Section 3A.11.1 [8] MRCAETS
Instrument 2012 No. R2 VEA [12]
Instrument 2012 No. M4 MRCA [13]
Section 3A.14.1 [8] VCES
Section 3A.14.1 [8] MRCAETS
An underlying payment means any pension, payment, supplement or allowance under the VEA or MRCA that attracts a clean enrgy advance [3] and an energy supplement [3]
An Australian resident is a person who:
Australia is defined in the Acts Interpretations Act 1901 and includes the following territories and Islands:
Subsection 5Q(1) of the VEA [15] 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.
Links
[1] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/78806%23comment-form
[2] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/78806#tgt-cspol_part7_ftn70
[3] https://clik.dva.gov.au/%23
[4] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/78806#tgt-cspol_part7_ftn71
[5] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/78806#tgt-cspol_part7_ftn72
[6] https://clik.dva.gov.au/service-eligibility-assistant-updates/all-determinations-order-date-signed-oldest-most-recent/determinations-under-vea
[7] https://clik.dva.gov.au/service-eligibility-assistant-updates/all-determinations-order-date-signed-oldest-most-recent/determinations-under-mrca
[8] https://clik.dva.gov.au/legislation-library
[9] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/78806#ref-cspol_part7_ftn70
[10] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-7-common-allowances-and-benefits/74-clean-energy-payments/742-energy-supplement
[11] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/78806#ref-cspol_part7_ftn71
[12] http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Series/F2012L00858
[13] http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2012L00853
[14] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/78806#ref-cspol_part7_ftn72
[15] clikpopup://DEF/VEA