Bill
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2014
lapsed, as at 2014-10-28. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-06-18
- second reading — 2014-06-18
- second reading — 2014-06-24
- second reading — 2014-06-24
- committee — 2014-06-24
- third reading — 2014-06-24
- introduced — 2014-06-26
- second reading — 2014-06-26
- second reading — 2014-09-30
- second reading — 2014-10-01
- other — 2014-10-28
Divisions
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2014 and related bill - Second Reading - Read a second time — 2014-06-24, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 85, noes 46
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2014 and related bill - Consideration in Detail - Remove certain measures — 2014-06-24, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 48, noes 83
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2014 and related bill - Consideration in Detail - Agree to the bills — 2014-06-24, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 84, noes 47
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2014 and related bill - Third Reading - Read a third time — 2014-06-24, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 84, noes 47
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-06-18.
This bill enacts a range of savings and benefit changes from the 2014 Budget, mostly affecting welfare recipients and family payments.
It alters payment rules, including freezing some income thresholds, changing how certain payments are indexed, and adjusting eligibility and portability conditions.
It also adds a recent Western Australian pay equity decision to the special account, enabling Commonwealth support for affected service providers.
- It stops the seniors supplement for holders of two specified health cards in June 2014.
- It renames the clean energy supplement and stops its annual increases permanently from July 2014.
- It pauses for three years the indexation of income and asset limits for most working-age allowances and family tax benefit free areas.
- It changes parenting payment single indexation to the consumer price index and removes the link to male average earnings.
- It limits overseas portability for student payments to six weeks and extends the ordinary waiting period for working-age payments.
- It freezes certain family tax benefit rates for two years and adds the specified pay equity decision to the special account.
Recipients of working-age allowances, student payments, family tax benefits, parenting payment single, seniors supplement, and service providers affected by the Western Australian pay equity decision.
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