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Social Security Act 1991
117How to work out a person’s disability support pension rate
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#### 117 How to work out a person’s disability support pension rate
A person’s disability support pension rate is worked out:
(a) if the person is not permanently blind and paragraph (b) does not apply to the person—using Pension Rate Calculator A at the end of section 1064 (see Part 3.2); or
(b) if the person is not permanently blind, has not turned 21 and does not have any dependent children—using Pension Rate Calculator D at the end of section 1066A (see Part 3.4A); or
(c) if the person is permanently blind and paragraph (d) does not apply to the person—using Pension Rate Calculator B at the end of section 1065 (see Part 3.3); or
(d) if the person is permanently blind, has not turned 21 and does not have any dependent children—using Pension Rate Calculator E at the end of section 1066B (see Part 3.4B).
> Note: For dependent child see section 5.