Part 3B
COVID-19 response workers
Preterm baby payments
30JMPreterm baby payments
This section applies (and section 71DA(5A)(a)(i) does not) to a COVID-19 response worker who is entitled to a preterm baby payment under section 71DA.
If the worker temporarily returns to work for COVID-19 response work, the department must not pay preterm baby payments to the worker in relation to the period of COVID-19 response work.
Any preterm baby payments received by the worker in respect of that period are recoverable under section 71X as an overpayment.
However, if the return to work finishes before the end of the preterm baby payment period, the worker’s preterm baby payments—
- resume on the date on which the worker resumes parental leave; and
- continue until the end of what would have been the 36th week of pregnancy had the child not been born prematurely.
Notes
- Section 30JM: inserted, on , by section 3 of the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Act 2020 (2020 No 13).