{"id":"F2025L01186","name":"Social Security (Exempt Lump Sum – F-111 Deseal/Reseal Payments) Determination 2025","slug":"social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":107085,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2025L01186-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 – F-111 Deseal/Reseal Payments) Determination 2025.","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"#### 2 Commencement\n\n 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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\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 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Act means the Social Security Act 1991.\n\nF-111 deseal/reseal payment means a one-off ex-gratia lump sum payment made by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to a participant in the F-111 deseal/reseal program.\n\nF-111 deseal/reseal program means the deseal/reseal program conducted by the Royal Australian Air Force and their contractors to undertake maintenance on F-111 aircraft in Amberley, Queensland, between 1973 and 2000.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Schedules","content":"#### 5 Schedules\n\n Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"6","sectionType":"section","heading":"Exempt lump sum","content":"#### 6 Exempt lump sum\n\nFor the purposes of paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Act, a F-111 deseal/reseal payment is an exempt lump sum.\n\n \n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nSocial Security Exempt Lump Sum (F-111 Deseal/Reseal Lump Sum Payment) Determination 2015\n\n1 The whole of the instrument\n\nRepeal the instrument","sortOrder":5}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a straightforward re-enactment of the 2015 determination with identical scope. The legislation maintains the same narrow purpose: exempting a specific category of veterans' compensation payment from social security income testing. No expansion of scope has occurred."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 defined terms in the interpretation section","Single operative provision (section 6) with no conditional logic or exceptions","No cross-references beyond the empowering provision (Social Security Act 1991, paragraph 8(11)(d))","Straightforward repeal of a single previous instrument in Schedule 1","Total length is approximately 1 page of substantive content"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument ensures one‑off ex‑gratia payments to former RAAF personnel and contractors who did F‑111 deseal/reseal work at Amberley (1973–2000) are exempt from Centrelink income tests. Recipients can get the lump sum without having their Age Pension, Disability Support Pension, JobSeeker or other social security payments reduced. It continues a 2015 determination with the same effect."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument re-declares the specified DVA one-off payment as an exempt lump sum (s 6) and repeals the earlier 2015 Determination (Schedule 1). On its face it continues the exempt status for the same category of payment without expanding the classes of payments or recipients; full legal effect depends on paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991 (Authority, s 3)."},"complexity_factors":["Single substantive operative provision (s 6) declaring the payment an exempt lump sum.","Short set of clear definitions limited to ‘Act’, the payment, and the program (s 4).","Cross-reference to paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991 requires reading that provision to see full legal effect.","Repeal of the earlier 2015 Determination (Schedule 1) but no additional transitional rules or exceptions.","Commencement mechanics specified by a table (commences day after registration) but no staggered or conditional starts."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument declares that a “F-111 deseal/reseal payment” — a one-off ex-gratia lump sum paid by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to participants in the RAAF F‑111 deseal/reseal program — is an \"exempt lump sum\" for the purposes of paragraph 8(11)(d) of the Social Security Act 1991. It takes effect the day after registration and repeals the 2015 Determination.\n\nMechanically, the determination means those lump sums are not counted under the Social Security Act’s means-testing rules when assessing social security entitlements."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025","history":"/api/acts/social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/social-security-exempt-lump-sum-f-111-deseal-reseal-payments-determination-2025/documents"}}