Multiple entitlement exclusion — Clean EMultiple entitlement exclusion — Clean Energy Advance

Multiple entitlement exclusion – Clean Energy Advance

3A.10.1 Despite any provision of the MRCAETS a person is not eligible for a clean energy advance under the MRCAETS: (1) if the person has previously been paid, or is eligible or qualified for, a clean energy advance under: (a) ABSTUDY; or (b) the MRCA, in relation to a MRCA wholly dependent partner payment; or (c) the Social Security Act 1991; or (d) the VCES (in relation to the same period); or (e) the VEA, except for a clean energy advance in relation to disability pension; or (2) if the person has previously been paid a clean energy advance under the MRCAETS (in relation to the same period). 3A.10.2 A person to whom paragraph 3A.10.1 applies may still be eligible for a top‑up payment.

Division 2 Clean energy supplement and quarterly clean energy supplement

Clean energy supplement

3A.11.1 This paragraph applies to a person for a day if:

(a) the person receives for the day a clean energy underlying payment; and

(b) the person’s rate of the payment is greater than nil; and

(c) the person is residing in Australia on the day; and

(d) on the day the person either:

(i) is in Australia; or

(ii) is temporarily absent from Australia and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 6 weeks.

Note: paragraph 3A.15.2 (election to take quarterly clean energy supplement) may affect whether a person meets the conditions in paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 3A.11.1.

Clean energy supplement payable

3A.12.1 Subject to paragraph 3A.14.1 (multiple entitlement exclusion), if paragraph 3A.11.1 applies to a person, the Commonwealth is liable to pay the person for the day clean energy supplement for the person’s clean energy underlying payment.

Note 1: The supplement is a payment separate from the clean energy underlying payment.

Note 2: paragraph 3A.14.1 (multiple entitlement exclusion) may affect the person’s entitlement to the clean energy supplement.

Rate of clean energy supplement

3A.13.1 The rate of clean energy supplement for a clean energy underlying payment is the rate worked out by:

(a) working out 1.7% of the clean energy underlying payment on 1 January 2014 (taking account of any indexation on that day); and

(b) rounding the result of paragraph (a) up or down to the nearest multiple of 10 cents (rounding up if that result is not a multiple of 10 cents but is a multiple of 5 cents).

3A.13.2 A clean energy supplement is to be added to the rate of clean energy underlying payment of a person mentioned in paragraph 3A.11.1.

3A.13.3 Paragraph 3A.13.2 does not apply if quarterly clean energy supplement is payable to a person to whom paragraph 3A.12.1 applies.