Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-06-21
- second reading — 2017-06-21
- second reading — 2017-10-19
- second reading — 2017-10-23
- second reading — 2017-10-23
- third reading — 2017-10-23
- introduced — 2017-11-13
- second reading — 2017-11-13
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea — 2017-10-23, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 76, noes 70
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-06-21.
This bill would tighten eligibility for student payments announced in the 2017-18 federal budget.
It would stop students whose family home is outside Australia from receiving the relocation scholarship, and limit it to those moving within Australia to study.
The relocation scholarship would also be denied to students who travel overseas for part of an Australian course.
- Restrict the relocation scholarship to students whose family home is in Australia.
- Remove eligibility for students whose family home is outside Australia.
- Remove eligibility for students who relocate outside Australia to study part of an Australian course.
Students receiving Youth Allowance and the relocation scholarship.
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