The Pension Supplement gets added to the max rate of payment before income reduction tests are applied. Note that if the individual is part of a couple, the rate indicates the payment amount per person, not for the couple. Can be claimed by those receiving Age Pension, Carer Payment, Wife Pension, Widow B Pension, Bereavement Allowance, or Disability Support Pension (except if under 21 and have no children). Can also be claimed if over age pension age and are receiving ABSTUDY, Austudy, Parenting Payment, Partner Allowance, Special Benefit, or Widow Allowance. Can still claim the basic amount if single, under age pension age, and receive the Parenting Payment.

pension_supplement(has_partner = FALSE, age = 70, n_dependants = 0,
  parenting_payment = FALSE, Date = NULL, fy.year = NULL,
  qualifying_payment = "age_pension", per = c("year", "fortnight",
  "quarter"), overseas_absence = FALSE, seperated_couple = FALSE)

Arguments

has_partner

Does the individual have a partner?

age

The individual's age. Default is 70 years.

n_dependants

How many dependant children does the individual have?

parenting_payment

Is the individual receiving parenting payment?

Date

Date. Default is "2016/03/01" if fy.year is not present.

fy.year

Financial year. Default is "2015-16" if Date is not present.

qualifying_payment

What is the payment that the supplement is being applied to?

per

How often the payment will be made. Default is to return the annual payment, with a message.

overseas_absence

Will the individual be living outside of Australia for more than 6 weeks of the upcoming year?

seperated_couple

Is the individual part of an illness separated couple, respite care couple, or partner imprisoned?