Summary

Amends the:

and to clarify arrangements for the payment of travel expenses for treatment; to extend eligibility for benefits; to provide that reimbursements made under the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme are exempt from income tax; to provide that certain bereavement payments in respect of indigent veterans or members are exempt income for the purposes of the social security income test; to: align maintenance income and attendant allowance provisions with those in the ; provide for provision of special assistance by inclusion in a legislative instrument; clarify administrative arrangements for certain travel; and clarify that debt recovery provisions apply to all provisions of the Act, the regulations and any legislative instrument made under the Act; to: amend the long and short titles of the Act; and repeal inoperative provisions; and , and to make technical amendments.