25UMP support payment exemption (persons with a disability)

25 UMP support payment exemption (persons with a disability)

For subsection 52(4) of the Act, a person is exempt from UMP support payment for a contribution year if: (a) the person has at the beginning of the contribution year, or develops during that year, a physical, intellectual, psychiatric or sensory impairment; and (b) the person’s impairment is of 20 points or more under the Impairment Tables in Schedule 1B to the Social Security Act 1991; and (c) the Chief Executive Medicare is satisfied that the person has a continuing inability to work in a medical profession because of the person’s impairment.

Note for paragraph (c) Medical profession includes a health care related vocation. Health care related vocation means a health care related vocation in relation to which there is at least one State or Territory under the law of which a person must be registered in order to practise.