Partner Allowance (PA) 001-11000000

PA was an income support payment available to partners of pensioners or allowees who had no recent workforce experience and were born on or before 1 July 1955.

When PA was granted, a customer remained eligible for PA, even after their partner's eligibility for payment ceased.

PA ceased on 1 January 2022. Any customers that were current PA on this date were transferred to Age Pension.

PA closed to new claims from 20 September 2003.

From 20 September 2003, claimants who would have qualified for PA must claim either:

• JobSeeker Payment (JSP) if they are under Age Pension age, or
• Special Benefit (SpB) if they are over Age Pension age and not residentially qualified for Age Pension

PA ceased on 1 January 2022. All recipients were of Age Pension age on or before this date.

Customers that had not claimed/transferred to Age Pension and were current on payment on 1 January 2022 were automatically transferred to Age Pension on this date.

When a PA customer notified multiple events within 14 days and the first notifiable event resulted in an adverse decision and the second notifiable event resulted in a favourable decision which nullified the earlier event, PA should not have been cancelled.

For customers who lost entitlement after being absent from Australia for more than the maximum allowable portability period, PA was stopped. If the customer returned to Australia within 13 weeks of the loss of entitlement date their payment may have been restored. However, if they did not return within 13 weeks, their PA was cancelled and the payment could not be regranted as PA has not been able to be granted since 20 September 2003.