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An income support payment is a regular payment that helps you with living costs. An income support payment includes: Age pension, austudy, bereavement allowance, carer payment, disability support pension, farm household allowance, ewstart allowance, parenting payment, partner allowance, sickness allowance, special benefit, widow allowance, wife pension, youth allowanace. In addition; DVS ISP include income support supplement, service pension and veteran payment.
Deeming is a set of rules used to assess income from financial investments for social security and aged care purposes. Deeming assumes that financial investments earn a certain rate of income, regardless of the amount of income they are actually earning. If income support recipients or aged care residents earn more than these rates, the extra income is not assessed.
