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• Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

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

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to allow weekly payments of social security periodic payment, family tax benefit and baby bonus to people assessed as being vulnerable; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make technical corrections. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Indigenous Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that: the Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination is to be used to assess a person’s qualification for carer allowance; and a person remains qualified for carer allowance three months after the child cared for turns 16;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to: income management; credit of income management accounts in error; credit to income management accounts before debt recovery; student start-up scholarship payments and relocation scholarship payments; and consequential amendments;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to the recovery of income management debts; and

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  to: provide to the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) a guaranteed annual payment of $45 million from 1 July 2010, indexed to CPI for later years; provide additional funding to the ILC; and require regular review of these funding arrangements. 

  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 (Australian Apprentices) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to exempt the values of payments made under the Skills for Sustainability for Australian Apprentices and Tools For Your Trade programs from treatment as assessable income for taxation, social security and veterans’ affairs purposes. 

  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 (Economic Security Strategy) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to provide for economic security strategy payments (to be made as lump sum payments from 8 December 2008) to age, disability support, wife, widow B and veterans’ service pensioners and people receiving income support supplements, carer payments, and partner, widow and bereavement allowances. Also establishes administrative schemes to provide for payments in certain circumstances; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Employment Entry Payment) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to cease eligibility and payment of the employment entry payment, from 1 July 2008. 

  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 for Students) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  In response to recommendations of the Review of Higher Education (the Bradley Review), the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: phase-in a change to the age of independence from 25 to 22 years for the purposes of the independent youth allowance; provide that youth allowance claimants will not be able to attain independence through part-time employment or wages; increase the annual parental income threshold for non-independent youth allowance recipients; change the taper rate from 25 per cent per person to 20 per cent for families for the parental income reduction for youth allowance; increase and index to the Consumer Price Index the personal income free area for youth allowance, austudy students and Australian Apprentices; and provide the training supplement to all parenting payment recipients who are subject to participation requirements; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  ,

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: provide for a start-up scholarship and a relocation scholarship (both to be indexed from 2011); and exempt (to an indexed threshold) merit and equity based scholarships from the income test under social security and veterans’ entitlements legislation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  In response to recommendations of the Review of Higher Education (the Bradley Review), the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: phase-in a change to the age of independence from 25 to 22 years for the purposes of the independent youth allowance; provide that youth allowance claimants will not be able to attain independence through part-time employment or wages; increase the annual parental income threshold for non-independent youth allowance recipients; change the taper rate from 25 per cent per person to 20 per cent for families for the parental income reduction for youth allowance; increase and index to the Consumer Price Index the personal income free area for youth allowance, austudy students and Australian Apprentices; and provide the training supplement to all parenting payment recipients who are subject to participation requirements; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  ,

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: provide for a start-up scholarship and a relocation scholarship (both to be indexed from 2011); and exempt (to an indexed threshold) merit and equity based scholarships from the income test under social security and veterans’ entitlements legislation. Also requires a review of the impact of this proposed Act on student income arrangements to be completed by 30 September 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum