Bill
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Pensioner and Veteran Workforce Participation) Bill 2022
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Dean Smith
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-08-03
- second reading — 2022-08-03
- second reading — 2022-09-05
- other — 2025-07-21
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 2022-08-03.
The bill would encourage pensioners and veterans to take paid work by removing rules that penalise them for earning income.
Payments would be suspended rather than cancelled for up to two years when a recipient's income, including from their own job, is too high to qualify.
The Work Bonus that lets age and veteran service pensioners earn extra income before their pension is reduced would rise from $300 to $600 per fortnight.
- Allow age pensioners and certain veterans to have their payment paused for up to two years instead of ended when their income excludes them.
- Extend the period working pensioners can keep their pensioner concession card to two years.
- Double the Work Bonus threshold from $300 to $600 per fortnight for age and veteran service pensioners.
Age pensioners, disability support pensioners, veterans' entitlement recipients and their partners.
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