---
title: "Centrelink compensation preclusion period: figures to collect before settlement"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/centrelink-preclusion-worksheet"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-centrelink-preclusion-worksheet"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-W20261018-2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Centrelink compensation preclusion period: figures to collect before settlement

> Worksheet for a Centrelink compensation preclusion period, using the Services Australia pages on how the period is calculated. It collects the figures those pages use. It does not state the pension income-test limit.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/centrelink-preclusion-worksheet  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia, Commonwealth
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia and Commonwealth.

## When to use it

Use before a lump sum compensation settlement is agreed, where the person receives, or has claimed, an income support payment. The Social Security Act was not opened. Do not invent the dollar limit.

## Used for these tasks

- [Calculate the Centrelink compensation preclusion period before settlement](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md#A21-W20261018-2)

## How AI may be used

AI may enter dates and dollar figures the lawyer takes from the deed or the judgment. The lawyer decides which amount is the lump sum and whether the hearing was contested.

**AI may:**

- Record the date of injury, the date periodic payments stopped, and the date of settlement from the file
- Record each lump sum the deed or judgment names, and whether the lawyer has marked it as loss of earnings
- Leave the income-test limit blank until Services Australia or the lawyer inserts the limit at the settlement date

**AI must not:**

- Must not state a dollar figure for the single-rate pension income-test limit
- Must not decide that a head of damage is loss of earnings
- Must not tell the client they will be paid during the period

**The lawyer checks:**

- Whether the lump sum was awarded by a court or tribunal after a contested hearing
- Whether more than one lump sum is for the same injury and at least one has a loss of earnings
- The person has told Services Australia, if they get a payment or have claimed one

## Authorities

- [Services Australia, Preclusion periods (page last updated 5 December 2025)](https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/preclusion-periods-for-centrelink-compensation-recovery?context=22516)
- [Services Australia, How we calculate preclusion periods (page last updated 5 December 2025): 50 per cent of the lump sum, divided by the single-rate pension income-test limit at settlement](https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-we-calculate-preclusion-periods-for-centrelink-compensation-recovery?context=22516)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/centrelink-preclusion-worksheet and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*