Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Youth Employment) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2016-04-15. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-09-16
- second reading — 2015-09-16
- other — 2016-04-15
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 2015-09-16.
The bill would change rules for young people claiming certain welfare payments.
It would re-introduce some previously proposed budget measures with minor changes and add new ones.
The bill would, for example, exclude widow allowance recipients from a one-week waiting period and introduce a four-week waiting period for youth income support.
- Reintroduce modified versions of earlier budget measures related to youth employment.
- Introduce additional amendments targeting young job seekers.
- Exclude widow allowance claimants from a one-week ordinary waiting period.
- Delay the start date for raising the age of eligibility for newstart and sickness allowances.
- Create a four-week waiting period for youth income support.
- Implement a measure to rapidly activate young job seekers.
Young job seekers and recipients of working age payments such as newstart and sickness allowances.
Sources
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