Thank you for the question.
The benefit that you are referring to is what we call incapacity payments. It's made under two of our acts. We have a very complex legislative framework with the three pieces of legislation that we administer. Under two of those three acts we have a payment called incapacity payments. It's only one of a range of benefits available in the name of compensation for injury or disease.
It is a payment made where an ADF member is unable to work as a result of their injury or disease, and it is payable at 100% of their pre-injury salary and allowances, and then it steps down to 75% of their pre-injury salary and allowances after 45 weeks in payment. The step-down is to reflect the fact that there needs to be encouragement to them to undertake rehabilitation. If we paid 100% of their pre-injury salary, there would be no incentive to get back to work.
It is mainly as an incentive, but it also partly reflects the fact that a person who is not working does not have certain costs of going to work, so it's a step down to 75% after 45 weeks.