Bill
Social Security Amendment (Caring for People on Newstart) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2017-08-14.
- Sponsor
- Rachel Siewert
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-08-09
- second reading — 2017-08-09
- second reading — 2017-08-10
- second reading — 2017-08-14
Divisions
- Social Security Amendment (Caring for People on Newstart) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2017-08-14, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 45
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-08-09.
This bill would give more money to people receiving certain unemployment payments.
It would raise fortnightly payments for single recipients of Newstart and Youth Allowance.
The bill ties future increases to whichever is highest among several cost-of-living measures and starts a month after it becomes law.
- Increases the single rate of Newstart by $110 per fortnight.
- Increases the single independent rate of Youth Allowance by $110 per fortnight.
- Applies the same indexation method as certain pensions, using the highest of the CPI, MTAWE or the pensioner and beneficiary living cost index.
Single people on Newstart and single independent Youth Allowance recipients.
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