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• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that payments made under the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse are exempt from the income test;

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to ensure that payments made under the national redress scheme are quarantined from the divisible property of a bankrupt person;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1997

  to exempt decisions made under the national redress scheme from judicial review;

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt protected information from disclosure under the Act;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable the use and disclosure of protected information if it is done for the purposes of the national redress scheme; and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to enable the exclusion of children applying to the national redress scheme if they will not turn 18 during the life of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018, the bill implements the joint response of the Commonwealth Government, the government of each participating state and territory, and each participating non-government institution to recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s

  Redress and Civil Litigation Report

  by: establishing the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse to operate for a 10-year period from 1 July 2018; providing a payment of up to $150 000 to survivors; providing access to counselling and psychological services to survivors; and providing an option for survivors to receive a direct personal response from the responsible institution. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Payments for Carers) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to introduce a fixed and non-indexed family income test of $250 000 per annum for Carer Allowance and Carer Allowance (child) Health Care Card only claimants, to apply to singles and couples from 20 September 2018. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme—Worker Screening) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to enable the convictions of persons who work, or seek to work, with people with disability in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to be disclosed to, and taken into account by, Commonwealth, state and territory agencies in determining whether a person is suitable to work with people with disability in the NDIS. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Promoting Sustainable Welfare) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the newly arrived resident’s waiting period (NARWP) from 104 weeks to 156 weeks for certain social security payments and concession cards; introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for bereavement allowance, widow allowance, parenting payment and carer allowance; and make a technical amendment;

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to increase the NARWP from 104 weeks to 156 weeks;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for family tax benefit; and

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for parental leave pay and dad and partner pay. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (14-month Regional Independence Criteria) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Student Payments) Act 2017

  to provide that the ‘14-month period’ in the Youth Allowance regional workforce independence criteria, which commenced on 1 January 2018, is extended to apply to existing recipients who otherwise meet the regional workforce independence criteria. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: extend the interim period that applies for recently-established court-ordered care arrangements; and provide incentives for the person with increased care to take reasonable action to participate in family dispute resolution where a care dispute relates to an older court order, a parenting plan or a written agreement;

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: allow the Child Support Registrar to take into account an amended tax assessment in an administrative assessment of child support in certain circumstances; allow courts to set aside child support agreements made before 1 July 2008; and allow all child support agreements to be set aside without having to go to court if certain circumstances change;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to: align the methods for recovery of a child support overpayment from a payee with the methods for recovering a child support debt from a payer; provide that all backdated reductions to a child support assessment collected will be recoverable; and insert new backdating provisions for retrospectively creating a child support overpayment or underpayment due to a change of circumstances; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide that an individual will have their FTB Part A daily rate reduced by approximately $2.02 per day if their child does not meet the health check requirements under the Healthy Start for School initiative before their fifth birthday or if they do not comply with the immunisation requirements for their child; and allow the secretary to require that requests for certain exemptions from the immunisation requirements be made in a particular form and manner, contain any information and be accompanied by any documents required by the secretary. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to remove certain restrictions on the cashless debit card trial and thereby allow the extension of trial arrangements in current sites and to further sites. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends: seven Acts to create a jobseeker payment to replace seven existing payments as the main payment for people of working age from 20 March 2020; 10 Acts to provide for the cessation of the widow B pension, wife pension, bereavement allowance, sickness allowance, widow allowance and partner allowance; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: remove the ability of newstart allowance and certain special benefit recipients aged 55 to 59 to satisfy the activity test by engaging in voluntary work for at least 30 hours per fortnight; and remove certain exemptions for drug or alcohol dependence; the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide that a job seeker’s newstart allowance or youth allowance be payable from the date they attend their initial appointment with their employment services provider; ensure that job seekers are not able to use drug or alcohol dependency as an excuse for failing to meet their requirements; introduce a new compliance framework for mutual obligation requirements in relation to participation payments; and enable the Department of Human Services to require applicants to provide their tax file number at the time of a claim; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide that claimants receive payments from the date they lodge a complete claim; and establish a two year drug testing trial in three regions for 5000 new recipients of newstart allowance and youth allowance; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to enable certain information obtained in the course of an administrative action to be used in subsequent investigations and criminal proceedings; and the

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  to exempt three social security laws from the operation of the Act. Also: enables the minister to make rules of a transitional nature in relation to the cessation of payments; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 May 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

  to establish the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission with functions in relation to: registration and regulation of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) providers, including Practice Standards and a Code of Conduct; compliance monitoring, investigation and enforcement action; responding to complaints and reportable incidents including abuse and neglect of a person with disability; national policy setting for the screening of workers; national oversight and policy in relation to behaviour support and monitoring restrictive practices within the NDIS; and information sharing arrangements. Also amends the

  National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

  to make minor administrative amendments in response to an independent review of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum