Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Repair) Bill 2016
lapsed, as at 2017-05-10. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-09-01
- second reading — 2016-09-01
- other — 2017-05-10
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 2016-09-01.
The bill would cut the portability period for age pension and some other payments from 26 weeks to six weeks for holidays overseas.
It would also end two student support payments and freeze income test thresholds for working-age allowances and student payments for three years.
The changes would start on 1 January 2017, or later if the act receives royal assent after 1 October 2016, with specific start dates for each measure.
- Reduce the time overseas pensioners can receive full basic rate from 26 weeks to six weeks.
- Abolish the pensioner education supplement and the education entry payment.
- Freeze the income free areas for working-age allowances (except student payments) and for single parenting payment for three years.
- Freeze the income free areas, other means test thresholds, and student income bank limits for student payments for three years.
Age pension recipients, a small number of other payment recipients with unlimited portability, pensioner education supplement and education entry payment recipients, and people receiving working-age allowances (including student payments).
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