New South Wales Bar Association

Personal details

Name *

Please provide your first name

Kind of beneficiary *

Member or past member

Spouse of member or past member (including surviving spouse)

Partner of member or past member (including opposite or same sex relationship and including surviving partner)

Child (including adopted children and children of any aforementioned spouse or partner)

Other dependent

Specify how you are a dependent on a member or past member

Please specify how you are dependant

Address *

Your address is required

Email *

Please provide an email address

Phone *

Please provide a phone number

Circumstances giving rise to the financial hardship

Please briefly describe the circumstances giving rise to you requiring assistance.

Urgency

If you are in urgent need of financial assistance, please specify the reasons for the urgency.

Nature of assistance sought

What is the purpose for which you are applying for the grant of assistance?

What amount of financial assistance is required?

Up to $1,000

Up to $2,000

Up to $5,000

Up to $10,000

Up to $15,000

Financial circumstances

Dependants

How many adult dependents do you have?

How many child dependents do you have?

Income

What was the total in fees paid to you in the last 30 days?

What is the total in billable fees (for which you have billed or will bill) for the work performed in the last 30 days?

What was your taxable income from the last available year?

What other sources of income or support are available to your household? (Eg. partner’s income)

How much in outstanding fees is currently payable to you and what is the likely recoverability of those fees?

Liabilities

What is your monthly rent or mortgage liability?

Do you have any other significant debts? If so, please specify.

What are your other major financial commitments or liabilities?

Other sources of assistance

Do you hold an insurance policy that may pay benefits in your circumstances? (Eg. income protection or disability insurance). If so, please specify and set out what steps you have taken to make a claim on the policy, the outcome of any claim, or why you have not made a claim.

If your hardship results from illness or injury, have you investigated whether you are eligible to claim under a group disability or income protection policy held by your superannuation fund? If so, please provide details. If not, please explain why not.

If you are experiencing difficulty paying a mortgage or other debt to a credit provider, have you applied for a hardship variation from the lender? If so, please provide details. If not, please explain why not.

What steps have to you taken to alleviate your financial situation, where relevant include resort to government stimulus packages (information about these can be found here) and rent relief.

How much superannuation is available to you?

Have you taken any steps to access your superannuation? If so, please provide details. If not, please explain why not

Documentation

Please upload the following documents or statements as part of your application (if you are unable to supply all of these documents, please supply what you can):

A statement of work you have set down for the rest of 2020 including an indication of whether any work may have been directly or indirectly lost as result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A complete statement of assets and liabilities.
Your last 4 BAS statements.
A statement of any relevant medical condition caused or exasperated by the current COVID-19 pandemic that is sought to be relied upon.
A statutory declaration containing a declaration that the contents of the Application are true and complete to the best of the applicant’s knowledge.

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You may upload more than one document with this uploader or combine all of your documentation into one file and upload a single file.

Barristers’ Benevolent Fund

Application for assistance