Bill
Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Exempting Disability Payments from Income Testing and Other Measures) Bill 2021
passed, as at 2021-12-13. Veterans’ Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Veterans’ Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-10-21
- second reading — 2021-10-21
- second reading — 2021-11-30
- second reading — 2021-11-30
- third reading — 2021-11-30
- introduced — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- third reading — 2021-12-02
- passed — 2021-12-02
- royal assent — 2021-12-13
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 2021-10-21.
This bill would stop the social security income test applying to certain veterans' disability payments, and remove a related allowance.
It would also create a two-year trial of early, voluntary rehabilitation for veterans who are not liable for their injuries.
The government says the change would end a rule that gives severely disabled veterans less rent assistance than those with milder impairments.
- Exempts adjusted disability pension from the Social Security Act 1991 income test.
- Repeals the definition of adjusted disability pension and the Defence Force Income Support Allowance from the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
- Removes all references to the Defence Force Income Support Allowance from Commonwealth primary legislation.
- Establishes a two-year non-liability rehabilitation pilot.
- Removes the disability income rent test so rent assistance is paid without regard to impairment level.
Veterans receiving adjusted disability pension or other disability payments from the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
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