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• Social Security Amendment (Parenting Payment Transitional Arrangement) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that parenting payment recipients are only covered by the transitional arrangement in respect of children who were in their care before 1 July 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Student Income Support Reforms) Bill 2011

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  Date

  21 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: provide students from Inner Regional Areas with access to independent youth allowance; reset relocation scholarship values from 2012 for eligible regional students and provide for the values to be indexed from 2013; reduce the value of the student start-up scholarship payment from 2012 and provide for the payments to be indexed annually from 2013; provide for the cessation of the Rural Tertiary Hardship Fund; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Supporting Australian Victims of Terrorism Overseas) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to establish a framework to provide financial assistance for Australians and close family members of Australians who are injured or killed overseas as a result of an overseas terrorist incident; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (2012 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to extend permanently the income test exemption for the Western Australian Country Age Pension Fuel Card and the Cost of Living Rebate Scheme; seven Acts to reduce from 13 to 6 weeks the length of time individuals can spend overseas while continuing to receive certain income support payments and family payments; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  ,

  Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Act 2011

  and

  Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2011

  to remove eligibility for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A for people over 18 years of age unless they are in full-time secondary study; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to provide that the rate of FTB Part A for a child is not restricted to the base child rate due to privately collecting less than the full child support entitlement; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to allow a person’s percentage of care for child support and FTB purposes to be based on the actual care of the child immediately in special circumstances; the

  Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Act 2011

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to clarify the eligibility of a group of low-income families to the clean energy low income supplement; and the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Disability Support Pension Participation Reforms) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: allow all disability support pensioners to work up to 30 hours a week without having payments suspended or cancelled;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: provide that certain disability support pensioners under 35 years of age with a work capacity of at least eight hours a week attend participation interviews and develop a participation plan with Centrelink; and provide that certain disability support pensioners may live outside Australia indefinitely and continue to receive the disability support pension; and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Further 2012 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to extend the welfare reform trial in the Cape York area to 1 January 2014;

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to increase the appropriations for non-ABSTUDY payments in 2012 and 2013;

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

  ,

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  ,

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: enable a Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) member to release protected information in certain circumstances; enable an SSAT member to issue a non-disclosure order during a review; extend confidentiality obligations to everyone providing services at a review hearing; allow the SSAT Principal Member to reconstitute the SSAT; clarify that the SSAT Principal Member perform functions and powers enabling certain standards for the review process; and make technical amendments;

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to clarify arrangements when the amount of child support payable under a child support assessment is reduced in certain circumstances; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

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

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  in relation to: age requirements for social security payments; income tests for newstart and youth allowances; claims for newstart allowance; working credit balances; a parenting payment transitional arrangement; and a technical amendment;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to the determination of penalty amounts for no show no pay failures or reconnection failures; and

  Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000

  to provide additional funding for the Student Education Trusts measure for the 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2013 appropriation period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support Bonus) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide for an income support bonus (of $105 for single people or $87.50 for most people who are an eligible member of a couple) to be paid to eligible income support recipients on a twice-yearly basis from March 2013. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to require certain persons to inform the department within 14 days of events or changes in circumstances that may affect social security payments or qualification for concession cards; and

  Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Child Care and Other Measures) Act 2011

  and

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Rebate) Act 2011

  to make technical amendments. Also clarifies that certain computer-generated decisions made from 12 June 2001 to the date of assent comply with the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: enable parenting payment recipients to transfer temporarily to bereavement allowance following the death of a partner; remove the family member exemption from the two-year newly arrived resident’s waiting period before special benefit is payable; enable the minister to make legislative instruments determining Impairment Tables and rules relating to the tables; and clarify that payments made by an employer to an employee in lieu of notice of termination are regarded as redundancy payments for the purposes of the social security payments;

  Disability Services Act 1986

  to provide that disability advocacy services compliance with new Disability Advocacy Standards will be assessed by an independent certification body over a three-year cycle; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  in relation to certain asset-test exempt income streams and the provision of actuarial certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum