{"id":"F2007L04985","name":"Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment — Disregarded Income) Specification 2007","slug":"social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":71829,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2007L04985-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment — Disregarded Income) Specification 2007","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nSocial Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment — Disregarded Income) Specification 2007\n\nSocial Security Act 1991\n\nI, JEFF HARMER, Secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, make this Specification under subsection 93WB (2) of the Social Security Act 1991.\n\nDated 20th December 2007\n\nJ Harmer\n\nSecretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs\n\n1 Name of Specification\n\nThis Specification is the Social Security (Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment — Disregarded Income) Specification 2007.\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Specification commences on 1 January 2008.\n\n3 Definition\n\nIn this Specification:\n\n> Act means the Social Security Act 1991.\n\n4 Specification of income to be disregarded\n\nFor subparagraph 93WB (1) (b) (ii) of the Act, compensation within the meaning of subsection 17 (2) of the Act that is paid in the form of periodic payments is specified.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2202},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument maintains its narrow focus on specifying disregarded income for Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment calculations as originally intended."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 operative provisions with minimal text","References to external sections 93WB and 17(2) of the Social Security Act 1991 requiring cross-referencing","Single definitional provision that imports meaning from the parent Act","No conditional logic or exceptions within the instrument itself"],"plain_english_summary":"This Specification determines what income is ignored when calculating the Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment.\n\n**What it does**\n\nWhen someone dies, their surviving partner may be eligible for a Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment (a one-off payment related to the deceased's accrued pension bonus). Usually, Centrelink counts your income to see how much you can receive. This instrument says that **periodic compensation payments** (regular payments received as compensation for injury or loss) won't be counted as income against this particular bereavement payment.\n\n**Who is affected**\n\nThis applies to people claiming or receiving the Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment — typically the surviving partners of deceased pensioners who had accrued a pension bonus but hadn't claimed it before death.\n\n**Key detail**\n\nThe compensation payments must be regular/periodic payments (as defined in the Social Security Act), not one-off lump sums."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007","history":"/api/acts/social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007/history","analysis":"/api/acts/social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/social-security-pension-bonus-bereavement-payment-disregarded-income-specification-2007/documents"}}