{"id":1587,"date":"2017-06-09T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsfsa.org.au\/new\/?page_id=1587"},"modified":"2023-09-13T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:08:31","slug":"sickness-and-accident-benefit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/?page_id=1587","title":{"rendered":"Sickness and Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"Full members may under some circumstances be entitled to Sickness benefits from the Fire Service Fund.\u00a0 To qualify, the full Member must have exhausted any accumulated sick leave. On application, a fortnightly payment of $600.00 may be approved.\u00a0 Due to the Fund\u2019s status with Centrelink as a \u201cFriendly Society\u201d the payment of this benefit by the Fund is exempt from the Income Test Assessment applied by Centrelink.\u00a0 Additional financial assistance may be available under this benefit.\n\nPlease contact the Fire Service Fund for more information.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full members may under some circumstances be entitled to Sickness benefits from the Fire Service Fund.\u00a0 To qualify, the full Member must have exhausted any accumulated sick leave. On application, a fortnightly payment of $600.00 may be approved.\u00a0 Due to the Fund\u2019s status with Centrelink as a \u201cFriendly Society\u201d the payment of this benefit by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/?page_id=1587\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":576,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1587\/revisions\/2463"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fsfsa.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}