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Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
48Payment of telephone allowance
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48 Payment of telephone allowance
(1) Telephone allowance is to be paid by instalments.
(2) An instalment of telephone allowance is to be paid to a person on each telephone allowance payday on which telephone allowance is payable to the person.
(3) The amount of an instalment of telephone allowance is worked out by dividing the amount of the annual rate of telephone allowance by 4.
telephone allowance payday means the first day on which an instalment of a social security periodic payment would normally be paid to the person on or after any of the following:
(a) 1 January;
(b) 20 March;
(c) 1 July;
(d) 20 September.