Person—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Assessable income
METEOR identifier:	595870
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017
Definition:	The value of income per week from all sources as specified and used by the agency to establish eligibility of a person for receipt of housing assistance, expressed as dollars and cents.
Data Element Concept:	Person—assessable weekly income
Value Domain:	Total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Total
Data type:	Currency
Format:	N[NNNNN].NN
Maximum character length:	8
Unit of measure:	Australian currency (AU$)

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	This value domain must be expressed to two decimal places. Where there is a dollar value and no cent value, the cents must be expressed as .00 (e.g. 100.00).

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	The main components of assessable income are: wages and salary income derived from self-employment government pensions, benefits and allowances other income comprising investments (including interest, dividends, royalties and rent) and other regular income (including superannuation, private scholarships received in cash, workers' compensation, accident compensation, maintenance or alimony, and any other allowances regularly received). Assessable income is also used to calculate the rental housing rebate, that allows a household to pay a rent lower than the market rent. Each state and territory uses its own definition of 'assessable income'. Where household or income unit assessable income is required, then assessable income of each person is summed.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Person—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 See also Household—principal source of cash income, (housing assistance) code N[.N.N] Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 See also Household—principal source of cash income, housing assistance code N[.N.N] Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 See also Person—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 See also Person—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 See also Person—gross weekly income, total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 See also Person—source of cash income (principal)(housing assistance), code N{.N.N} Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:	Person income (housing assistance) cluster Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 DSS specific information: The assessable weekly income refers to the amount at 30 June. Public Housing and State Owned and Managed Indigenous housing (PH & SOMIH) DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 DSS specific information: For the purposes of this collection, a record should be completed for each income source rather than a single record for total income. Assessable weekly income refers to the amount at 30 June.