Top‑up payments of clean energy advanceTop‑up payments of clean energy advance

Top‑up payments of clean energy advance

3A.5.1 If: (a) the Commonwealth pays a clean energy advance (the original payment) to a person; and (b) the person’s circumstances change on a day (the change day) and the person satisfies any top‑up qualifying condition in relation to that change of circumstances as set out in paragraph 3A.5.2; and (c) either (i) the change of circumstances means that a higher clean energy advance daily rate would be used to calculate the original payment if the person’s clean energy advance eligibility day were the change day; or (ii) except for the provisions of a multiple entitlement exclusion the person would be eligible for a clean energy bonus under the Act, another Act or a Commonwealth scheme; the person is eligible for a top‑up payment calculated in accordance with paragraph 3A.5.4 – 3A.5.7. 3A.5.2 For the purposes of paragraph 3A.5.1 a person satisfies a top‑up qualifying condition if: (a) the person was paid an original payment and as a result of the change in circumstances the person receives an education allowance at a higher rate in relation to the change day and the change of circumstances occurs before 1 January 2014; or (b) the person was paid an original payment and as a result of the change in circumstances the person no longer receives an education allowance but receives, before 20 March 2013: (i) service pension; or (ii) war widow(er) pension; or (iii) a payment listed in subsection 914(4) of the Social Security Act 1991; or (iv) MRCA wholly dependent partner payment; or (c) the person was paid an original payment and as a result of the change in circumstances the person no longer receives an education allowance but receives, before 1 January 2014: (i) a payment listed in subsection 914A(5) of the Social Security Act 1991; or (ii) a VCES payment; or (iii) ABSTUDY. 3A.5.3 Despite any other provision of the MRCAETS if a person received an original payment under 3A.1.3 of the MRCAETS and as a result of a change in circumstances the person starts to receive one of the payments listed in subsection 914(4) of the Social Security Act 1991, war widow(er) pension or service pension under the VEA or a MRCA wholly dependent partner payment, in relation to the change day, the person will not be eligible for a top‑up payment.