Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Repair) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-12-02
- second reading — 2015-12-02
- second reading — 2016-02-04
- second reading — 2016-02-08
- second reading — 2016-02-08
- third reading — 2016-02-08
- introduced — 2016-02-22
- second reading — 2016-02-22
- other — 2016-04-17
Divisions
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Repair) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2016-02-08, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 87, noes 56
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-12-02.
This bill would reintroduce three measures from the 2015 Budget that were removed from an earlier bill in June 2015.
It would cut from two weeks to six weeks the period that age pension and certain other payment recipients receive their full basic rate while overseas, then adjust payments based on Australian working life residence.
The bill would also freeze income free areas for working age allowances and student payments from 1 July 2016 and 1 January 2016 respectively, and cease the pensioner education supplement from 1 January 2016.
- Reduces the portability period for age pension and some other payments from two weeks to six weeks.
- Freezes income free areas for working age allowances and student payments for three years.
- Ends the pensioner education supplement from 1 January 2016.
Age pension recipients and a small number of people on other payments with unlimited portability, as well as recipients of working age allowances and student payments.
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