Division
Mitch Fifield I was indicating to colleagues before the interruption that, under the Growing Jobs and Small Business package, there will be additional support options for young people with a mental illness, as well as young refugees and other vulnerable young migrants. There will also be a number of trials to provide intensive support to disadvantaged job seekers who have multiple barriers to work. These additional supports will be complemented by services through jobactive, which include work experience and better access to wage subsidies. But, most importantly, this measure will only apply to stream A job-ready individuals—that is, someone who resides in a labour market region, with good employment opportunities, and who has reasonable language, literacy and numeracy skills and recent work experience. A further 2015 budget measure in the bill will cease the Low Income Supplement from 1 July 2017. The measure will cease a supplement that has a very low take-up rate and is administratively highly complex. Indeed, service delivery costs in administering this payment far exceed the financial benefit accrued by the eligible individual. Many of those who qualify for the payment will continue to receive the energy supplement, with their family tax benefit payment. The bill also takes the opportunity to reintroduce some amendments relating to indexation that are currently before the Senate. The first of these indexation amendments will maintain at level for three years the income-free areas for all working-age allowances, other than student payments and parenting payment single. The start date for this was to have been 1 July 2015. The second amendment will maintain at level for three years the income-free areas and other means test thresholds for student payments, including the student income bank limits, with a new start date of 1 January 2016. By not indexing thresholds, some customers will not receive increases to payments that would otherwise have occurred. Payments
Senate, 2015-09-09. negative: ayes 30, noes 35.
Question
Mitch Fifield I was indicating to colleagues before the interruption that, under the Growing Jobs and Small Business package, there will be additional support options for young people with a mental illness, as well as young refugees and other vulnerable young migrants. There will also be a number of trials to provide intensive support to disadvantaged job seekers who have multiple barriers to work. These additional supports will be complemented by services through jobactive, which include work experience and better access to wage subsidies. But, most importantly, this measure will only apply to stream A job-ready individuals—that is, someone who resides in a labour market region, with good employment opportunities, and who has reasonable language, literacy and numeracy skills and recent work experience. A further 2015 budget measure in the bill will cease the Low Income Supplement from 1 July 2017. The measure will cease a supplement that has a very low take-up rate and is administratively highly complex. Indeed, service delivery costs in administering this payment far exceed the financial benefit accrued by the eligible individual. Many of those who qualify for the payment will continue to receive the energy supplement, with their family tax benefit payment. The bill also takes the opportunity to reintroduce some amendments relating to indexation that are currently before the Senate. The first of these indexation amendments will maintain at level for three years the income-free areas for all working-age allowances, other than student payments and parenting payment single. The start date for this was to have been 1 July 2015. The second amendment will maintain at level for three years the income-free areas and other means test thresholds for student payments, including the student income bank limits, with a new start date of 1 January 2016. By not indexing thresholds, some customers will not receive increases to payments that would otherwise have occurred. Payments
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