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ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement (PES) qualifications 010-05050000

This document outlines a student's eligibility for ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement (PES).

Assessing ABSTUDY PES eligibility

Table 1

Step	Action
1	Eligibility criteria + Read more ... Does the student meet all other eligibility criteria for one of the following awards, with the exception of the requirement to be undertaking a full-time study load? ABSTUDY eligibility criteria for Tertiary Award ABSTUDY eligibility criteria for Masters and Doctorate Award, or ABSTUDY eligibility criteria for Schooling B Award Note: the ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement (PES) is only available for the above awards. Yes, go to Step 2 No, go to Step 5
2	Receiving certain income support payments + Read more ... Is the student receiving one of the certain income support payments that attract Pensioner Education Supplement (PES)? Yes, go to Step 3 No, go to Step 5
3	Assessing Study load + Read more ... Is the student either undertaking 75-100% of the normal full-time study load for their course or eligible for a concessional study load? Yes, go to Step 4 No, go to Step 5
4	Eligible for ABSTUDY PES + Read more ... Advise the customer they may have met the eligibility criteria for ABSTUDY PES. Advise the customer to lodge a claim, see Claiming ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement (PES) and Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) PES. Record details on a DOC. To determine a student's ABSTUDY PES rate, see Table 2.
5	No qualification to ABSTUDY PES + Read more ... The customer does not qualify for the ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement (PES). Record details of the discussion with the student in a DOC. Consider other possible entitlements under eligibility for ABSTUDY, including the ABSTUDY Part-time Award. Note: those students who are undertaking a workload of less than 25%, do not qualify for ABSTUDY PES but may qualify for the ABSTUDY Part-time award. Procedure ends here.

ABSTUDY PES rates based on study load

Table 2: This table describes the process for assessing rates of PES based on the customers study load.

Step	Action
1	Payment schedule + Read more ... ABSTUDY PES payments are: paid at a daily rate of 1/14 of the fortnightly rate generally paid on the same date as the student's qualifying payment Go to Step 2.
2	Normal rate of ABSTUDY PES + Read more ... Students receiving one of the following payments will be eligible to receive the normal rate of PES as long as they are studying over 25% study load for their course: Disability Support Pension (DSP) JobSeeker Payment (JSP) or Youth Allowance (YA) with the customer target category of partial capacity for work Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) Invalidity Service Pension, or War Widow/er Pension, where the customer both has a dependent child under 16 years of age and receives a DVA Income Support Supplement due to permanent incapacity for work For all other students, go to Step 3.
3	Rate of ABSTUDY PES + Read more ... If the customer is undertaking: 25-49% of the normal full-time study load for the course, the customer is entitled to the reduced rate of PES 50-100% of the normal full-time study load for the course, the customer is entitled to the normal rate of PES Procedure ends here.