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Policy

Social Security Guide 7.0 Portability & comparable foreign payment (CFP)

Social Security Guide 7.1 Portability of payments outside Australia

Social Security Guide 7.1.1 Portability table (summary of payment rules)

Social Security Guide 7.1.2 Unlimited portability

Social Security Guide 7.1.3 Limited portability

Social Security Guide 7.1.4 Portability Extensions

Social Security Guide 7.1.8 Portability definitions

Social Security Guide 7.2.1 Pre-departure arrangements for portable pensions

Social Security Guide 7.2.2 Rate of portable pensions

Social Security Guide 7.2.3 Portability determinations and date of effect

Social Security Guide 7.2.4 Post-departure reviews of portable payments

Definitions

Social Security Guide 1.1.A.320 Australia

Social Security Guide 1.1.P.310 Portability, proportional portability

Social Security Guide 1.1.S.40 Saved cases, savings provisions

Social Security Guide 1.1.A.340 Australian working life residence (AWLR)

For portability and Comparable Foreign Pension (CFP)

Social Security Guide 7 Portability & comparable foreign payment (CFP)

Social Security Guide 10.1.10 Paying Agreement Pensions Overseas

Social Security Guide 4.6.3.10 General provisions for assessing the principal home

Social Security Guide 4.6.3.60 Exempting the principal home - temporary vacation of property

Social Security Guide 3.4.1 Age - qualification & payability

Legislation

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Definitions

Social Security Act 1991

  • section 7(2), Australian residence definitions
    • subsection 2, 'An Australian Resident is a person who'
    • subsection 3, 'In deciding the purposes of this Act whether or not a person is residing in Australia'
  • section 1212, Meaning of terms used in this Part
  • section 1217, Meaning of maximum portability period, allowable absence and portability period
  • section 1214, Some payments generally portable with no time limit
  • section 1218C, Extension of person's portability period

Social Security (International Agreements) Act 1999

  • section 21, Australian working life residence: recipient of pension PP (single) or JSP

Portability of payments

Social Security Act 1991

  • section 1216, Amounts added to rate
  • section 1213, Persons to whom Division applies
  • section 1211, Social Security (International Agreements) Act overrides Part
  • section 43(1), Qualification for and Payability of Age pension
  • section 1220A, Proportionality - age pension rate
  • section 11, A residence of a person is taken to continue to be the person's principal home
    • subsection 9, 'A residence of a person is to be taken to continue to be the person's principal home during'
  • Schedule 1A, 128 (1), Saving provision - portability rules relating to rates of pension