Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (No. 2) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-09-16. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-05-28
- second reading — 2015-05-28
- second reading — 2015-06-15
- second reading — 2015-06-15
- third reading — 2015-06-15
- introduced — 2015-06-16
- second reading — 2015-06-16
- second reading — 2015-09-07
- second reading — 2015-09-07
- committee — 2015-09-07
- third reading — 2015-09-07
- other — 2015-09-08
- passed — 2015-09-08
- royal assent — 2015-09-16
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-05-28.
This bill would extend the income management programme and its payment card for two more years while changing how it operates.
It would end certain incentive payments linked to income management, adjust the vulnerable measure, and tidy up the rules to help the programme work better.
It would also stop a residential care subsidy from 1 July 2015 for beds held empty for up to a week before a resident arrives, and would dissolve the aged care planning advisory bodies.
- Extends income management and the BasicsCard for another two years.
- Abolishes some incentive payments for income management.
- Adjusts the vulnerable measure of income management.
- Removes ambiguities to improve the programme's effectiveness.
- Ends the holding payment for residential care places from 1 July 2015.
- Repeals provisions for the Aged Care Planning Advisory Committees.
People on income management, residential aged care providers and care recipients, and the former advisory committees' functions.
Sources
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