Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2017-03-23. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-27
- second reading — 2017-02-28
- second reading — 2017-03-01
- second reading — 2017-03-01
- committee — 2017-03-01
- third reading — 2017-03-01
- introduced — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-20
- other — 2017-03-23
Divisions
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Don't agree with bill's main idea — 2017-03-01, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 67, noes 73
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2017-03-01, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 73, noes 66
- Cathy McGowan I move the amendments circulated in my name: (1) Schedule 4, page 233 (after line 10), after item 235, insert: 235A After section 232 Insert: 232A Community Child Care Fund—guidelines for funding (1) The Secretary must, no later than 1 July 2017, publish on the Department's website guidelines outlining the criteria that will be used in determining how funding will be allocated from the Community Child Care Fund. (2) The Minister must table before each House of the Parliament, on the next sitting day of the House after the guidelines are published under subsection (1), a copy of the guidelines. 232B Community Child Care Fund—assessment of likely impact on rural and regional areas (1) The Secretary must, no later than 1 July 2017: (a) conduct an assessment of the impact that the replacement of the Budget Based Funded Program with the Community Child Care Fund will have on communities in rural and regional Australia (the _rural and regional impact assessment_); and (b) publish a report of the rural and regional impact assessment on the Department's website. (2) The rural and regional impact assessment must include, for each rural or regional area of each State and Territory of Australia: (a) a statement of the number of child care places that will be available in the area under the Budget Based Funded Program on 1 July 2017, as compared with the number of child care places that will be available under the Community Child Care Fund on 1 July 2018; and (b) an estimate of the number of child care services in the area that will cease to operate during the financial year beginning on 1 July 2017 (if any); and (c) an estimate of the number of child care services that will begin to operate in the area during the financial year beginning on 1 July 2017 (if any); and (d) an assessment of any other impacts that the replacement of the Budget Based Funded Program with the Community Child Care Fund will have on communities in the area. (3) The Minister must, by legisl — 2017-03-01, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 70, noes 73
- No motion text available — 2017-03-01, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 73, noes 70
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2017-03-01, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 73, noes 70
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-02-08.
This bill makes a number of changes to welfare payments and introduces reforms to childcare assistance.
It adjusts payment rates, phases out certain supplements, introduces a new childcare subsidy, and changes rules around overseas pension payments and indexation.
Most changes take effect between July 2016 and September 2017, with some applying from 2018.
- The standard fortnightly family tax benefit Part A rate is increased by $20.02 for each child up to age 19, with a similar increase for some youth allowance and disability support pension recipients.
- Family tax benefit Part B is removed for most single-parent families from the year their youngest child turns 17.
- The family tax benefit Part A supplement is reduced for families earning $80,000 or less per year, then withdrawn entirely.
- A new Child Care Subsidy is introduced to simplify childcare payments.
- The period that age pension and some other payments can be received at the basic rate while overseas is reduced from six weeks to four weeks.
- The energy supplement is closed to new welfare recipients from September 2017.
Families receiving family tax benefits, young people on youth allowance, disability support pensioners, childcare users, age pensioners, and new welfare recipients.
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