Bill
Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (More Support in the Safety Net) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-07-09. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-05-29
- second reading — 2024-05-29
- second reading — 2024-06-04
- second reading — 2024-06-05
- second reading — 2024-06-05
- third reading — 2024-06-05
- introduced — 2024-06-24
- second reading — 2024-06-24
- second reading — 2024-07-03
- second reading — 2024-07-03
- committee — 2024-07-03
- third reading — 2024-07-04
- passed — 2024-07-04
- royal assent — 2024-07-09
Divisions
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (More Support in the Safety Net) Bill 2024 - Committee of the Whole - Increase social support payments — 2024-07-04, Senate: negative, ayes 12, noes 35
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-05-29.
The bill would increase certain social security payments as part of the 2024-25 Budget.
It would raise Commonwealth rent assistance maximum rates by 10 per cent and increase jobseeker payment for some recipients with limited work capacity.
The bill would also let carer payment recipients temporarily stop providing care more flexibly without losing their payment.
- Raises Commonwealth rent assistance maximum rates by 10 per cent.
- Increases jobseeker payment for recipients with a partial capacity to work of 0 to 14 hours per week.
- Improves access to paid work for carer payment recipients by increasing flexibility in temporarily ceasing care.
Recipients of social security or equivalent payments, including those receiving Commonwealth rent assistance, jobseeker payment, and carer payment.
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