50Simplified outline of this Part

50 Simplified outline of this Part

The Department must give CSC information relevant to working out whether a benefit, and how much benefit, is payable for a covered ADF member who is medically discharged or dies.

Choices about the form of benefit are not effective unless they are notified to CSC in a way suitable to CSC.

CSC may give a person’s agent a notice for the person, and a person’s agent may give CSC a notice for the person.

CSC may reconsider its own decisions on its own initiative or on request by persons affected by those decisions, and may involve the Defence Force Case Assessment Panel in reconsiderations.

CSC may delegate its powers in accordance with the Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011.

Benefits are payable from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Payments made purportedly as pensions or lump sums that were not actually payable may be recovered from the recipient, and must be reported.