{"id":"F2025L01253","name":"Social Security (Exempt Lump Sum – Bali Commemoration Services Travel Assistance Payment) Determination 2025","slug":"social-security-exempt-lump-sum-bali-commemoration-services-travel-assistance-payment-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":107300,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2025L01253-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Name","content":"#### 1 Name\n\n This instrument is the Social Security (Exempt Lump Sum – Bali Commemoration Services Travel Assistance Payment) Determination 2025.","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"#### 2 Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n```html\n

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1. The whole of this instrument

1 October 2025.

\n```\n\n> Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Authority","content":"#### 3 Authority\n\n This instrument is made under paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Definitions","content":"#### 4 Definitions\n\n In this instrument:\n\n> Act means the Social Security Act 1991.\n\n> Bali Commemoration Services Travel Assistance Payment means a lump sum payment made to an eligible claimant in accordance with the ‘2025 Bali Commemoration Services – Travel Assistance Payment Guidelines’ for attendance at a Commemoration Service.\n\n> Commemoration Service means an official memorial service for the 2005 Bali bombings held on 1 October 2025 at an eligible location identified in the 2025 Bali Commemoration Services – Travel Assistance Payment Guidelines.\n\n> 2025 Bali Commemoration Services – Travel Assistance Payment Guidelines means the program guidelines dated 16 September 2025, and published on the GrantConnect website (www.grants.gov.au – GO7907), for a grant program operated by the Australian Government to support the participation of eligible claimants that have travelled and participated in a Commemoration Service.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Exempt lump sum","content":"#### 5 Exempt lump sum\n\n For the purposes of paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Act, a Bali Commemoration Services Travel Assistance Payment is an exempt lump sum.","sortOrder":4}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation precisely matches its original intent. It was designed to exempt a specific commemorative travel payment from Centrelink means testing, and it does exactly that without expansion into broader policy areas."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 defined terms in the entire instrument","Single operative provision (section 5) with no conditional logic or exceptions","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling provision (paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991)","Straightforward purpose: designate one specific payment as 'exempt lump sum'","Length: approximately 1 page of substantive content","No nested provisions, schedules, or regulatory machinery"],"plain_english_summary":"This Determination says the one‑off Bali Commemoration Services Travel Assistance Payment (for eligible 2005 Bali bombing survivors and family members attending the 20th‑anniversary memorial) is ignored for Centrelink income and assets tests. Beneficiaries on Age Pension, DSP, JobSeeker, etc., can accept the travel grant without it reducing or jeopardising their payments — removing a financial barrier to attending."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not broaden or narrow Social Security Act entitlement categories. It solely declares that the named Bali travel assistance payment is an \"exempt lump sum\" for the purposes of paragraph 8(11)(d), leaving eligibility, payment amounts and administration to the separate 2025 program guidelines (see s4 and s5)."},"complexity_factors":["Very narrow, single-purpose instrument: it designates one named payment as exempt (s5).","Relies on external program documentation for critical details—eligibility, amounts, locations and administration are set out in the 2025 Bali Commemoration Services – Travel Assistance Payment Guidelines published on GrantConnect (s4).","Legal effect is a straightforward interaction with paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act; minimal statutory drafting or new obligations (s3, s5).","Commencement and temporal application are explicit (commences 1 October 2025) but the instrument is otherwise short and non‑complex (s2).","Administrative complexity is concentrated outside the instrument: officials must apply the exemption when assessing entitlements and reconcile grant payments with social security records (implicit from s4/s5)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument declares that a specific lump-sum travel assistance payment for attendance at the 1 October 2025 Bali Commemoration Service is an \"exempt lump sum\" under the Social Security Act. It affects people who receive that payment by preventing the payment from counting against their social security means tests. It matters because it changes how that single payment interacts with recipients’ social security entitlements, while leaving payment eligibility and delivery to the program guidelines."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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