Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269559 |
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| Definition: | The weekly amount of Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) the income unit is entitled to receive. |
| Context: | The Commonwealth pays rent assistance to recipients of income support payments, including those who receive more than the base rate of family tax benefit (Part A), and pay private rent above minimum thresholds. Rent assistance can be used for:
This metadata item is used in the calculation of housing affordability. |
Centrelink income unit—Commonwealth Rent Assistance amount
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Centrelink income unit |
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| Definition: | An income unit is the base unit that is used to calculate a Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) entitlement amount. It consists of a person and: (a) any other person treated as their current partner under the Social Security Act 1991 (b) any other person for whom either them, or their partner, receives Family Tax Benefit. |
| Specialisation of: | Person/group of persons |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs |
| Origin: | Census of Income Support Customers |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Commonwealth Rent Assistance amount |
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| Definition: | The amount of Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) funds which are entitled to be claimed. |
| Property group: | Financial characteristics |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services |
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