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Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012

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This instrument names the specific serious medical conditions that make someone eligible for the Essential Medical Equipment Payment (EMEP) — a Centrelink payment to help cover electricity for life-sustaining or health-critical powered equipment at home.

It affects people whose conditions (e.g., high spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury, neurodegenerative or muscular-wasting disorders, extensive burns, rare sweating disorders, chronic erythrodermas) mean they need air conditioning, cooling systems, ventilators or similar equipment to stay alive or maintain health.

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Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012

Social Security Act 1991

I, JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform, acting under paragraph 917C(3)(b) of the Social Security Act 1991 make this Specification.

Dated 21st March 2012

J Macklin

Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform

1 Name of Specification

This Specification is the Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012.

2 Commencement

This Specification commences on 18 June 2012.

3 Definition

In this Specification:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

4 Medical conditions

Each medical condition specified in Schedule 1 is a specified medical condition for the purposes of paragraph 917C(1)(b) of the Act.

Note: Schedule 1 Medical conditions

Note: Spinal cord injury at or above the T7 level

Note: Stroke

Note: Brain injury

Note: A neurodegenerative disorder

Note: The muscular dystrophies

Note: Full thickness burns covering more than 20 per cent of the body surface area

Note: Rare disorders of sweating including congenital absence or mal-development of sweat glands

Note: Chronic erythrodermas

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1 Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012

Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012

Social Security Act 1991

Dated 21st March 2012

J Macklin

Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform

1 Name of Specification

This Specification is the Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012.

2 Commencement

This Specification commences on 18 June 2012.

3 Definition

In this Specification:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

4 Medical conditions

Each medical condition specified in Schedule 1 is a specified medical condition for the purposes of paragraph 917C(1)(b) of the Act.

Note: Schedule 1 Medical conditions

Note: Spinal cord injury at or above the T7 level

Note: Stroke

Note: Brain injury

Note: A neurodegenerative disorder

Note: The muscular dystrophies

Note: Full thickness burns covering more than 20 per cent of the body surface area

Note: Rare disorders of sweating including congenital absence or mal-development of sweat glands

Note: Chronic erythrodermas