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TOTAL RESULTS: 33
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28 Mar 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to: disposal of assets; pensioner payments and treatment eligibility for prisoners; indexation of income/assets reduction limits; recovery of social security overpayments; rent assistance; bereavement payments; pension bonuses; rent assistance; and certain income support regimes; Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
in relation to: service injuries and diseases; and onus of proof; Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
to include the income support supplement as a payment not requiring provision of a tax file number; Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to: clarify the taxable status of Defence Force Income Support Allowance payments; and Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004
to repeal redundant provisions.
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20 Sep 2007
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Portfolio
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: increase the rates of extreme disablement adjustment disability pension, general rate disability pension and the previously non-indexed component of war widow and widower pension; and introduces new indexation arrangements for these pensions to be indexed twice annually.
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13 Mar 2008
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House of Representatives
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to extend the automatic grant of intermediate and temporary special rate disability pensions to eligible dependants of veterans or members; Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
and Social Security Act 1991
to extend eligibility for income support supplements to certain war widows and widowers; and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to extend a tax exempt bereavement payment to the estate of certain single pensioners who die in indigent circumstances.
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- Date
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19 Mar 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: give effect to arrangements for entering into international agreements in relation to the payment of pensions and providing assistance and benefits to eligible persons; authorise the use of funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for those purposes; and align the veterans’ entitlements means test with the social security means test; Legislative Instruments Act 2003
to make minor and technical consequential amendments; Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
to extend the period for which the Commonwealth or Australian Federal Police may be considered as a nuclear test participant for the purposes of the Act; and Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
to make minor amendments in relation to a definition and clarifying compensation matters.
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28 May 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans’ Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to enable veterans’ affairs pensions, allowances and other pecuniary benefits to be paid into accounts with foreign banks or other financial institutions; Defence Service Homes Act 1918
to extend eligibility for the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme to persons eligible for assistance; and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to cease payment of dependants’ pensions and provide for a lump sum payment to existing recipients.
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12 Aug 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
to: increase the single maximum basic rate of veterans' affairs pensions from 20 September 2009; index veterans' affairs pensions using the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index; index veterans' affairs pensions using a combined couple benchmark; increase veterans' affairs pensions to compensate for anticipated increases in the living cost index arising from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; increase the income test taper rate and remove the additional income test free area for dependent children; introduce a Work Bonus so that certain income is disregarded as ordinary income; close the pension bonus scheme from 20 September 2009; increase the pension age for persons other than veterans from 65 to 67 years; enable certain veterans' affairs pension recipients to apply for an advance of veterans' affairs entitlements; Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
, Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
, Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
, Social Security Act 1991
and Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
to consolidate a number of smaller payments and allowances into one pension supplement; Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
and Social Security Act 1991
to allow veterans' affairs pensioners to transition to the new arrangements; and Aged Care Act 1997
in relation to the calculation of total assessable income for residents in aged care.
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- Date
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25 Nov 2009
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Veterans’ Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
to extend nuclear test participant eligibility to certain Australian Protective Service officers; Defence Service Homes Act 1918
to enable Defence Service Homes Insurance to pay the New South Wales State Emergency Services levy; Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to: time limits for claims for certain travel expenses; the aggravation of war-caused or defence-caused injury or disease remaining compensable; dependants of veterans who were prisoners of war; and review of the Statement of Principles; Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to the serving of notices or other documents; Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
to: require that certain lump sum compensation payments are made into the recipient’s account; and make technical amendments; and Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to enable Victoria Cross recipients to receive a Victoria Cross allowance or annuity under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
and from a foreign country.
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- Date
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10 Mar 2010
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans’ Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: remove redundant references and provisions relating to ‘benevolent homes’; exempt from the veterans’ entitlements exemption test payments associated with expenses for part-time work experience under a labour market program; require partners of persons claiming or receiving a service pension or income support to claim a comparable foreign pension; provide that arrears payments of comparable foreign pensions are treated as periodic payments; and clarify that the value of certain superannuation investments are not disregarded for the purposes of deemed income rules and asset deprivation rules.
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26 May 2010
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans’ Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: provide that Australian Defence Force members with British nuclear test defence service are eligible for pensions, treatment and other benefits; lower the age of domicile of choice from 21 to 18 years of age; and cease eligibility for war widow or widower pension for widows and widowers who enter into a de facto relationship prior to claiming the pension; Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
, Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
and Defence Service Homes Act 1918
to provide that certain submarine special operations between 1978 and 1992 will be reclassified as operational and qualifying service; and Defence Service Homes Act 1918
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to reclassify certain service in Ubai in Thailand as qualifying service.
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30 Sep 2010
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans’ Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
to extend nuclear test participant eligibility to certain Australian Protective Service officers; Defence Service Homes Act 1918
to enable Defence Service Homes Insurance to pay the New South Wales State Emergency Services levy; Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to: time limits for claims for certain travel expenses; the aggravation of war-caused or defence-caused injury or disease remaining compensable; dependants of veterans who were prisoners of war; and review of the Statement of Principles; Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
in relation to the serving of notices or other documents; Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
to: require that certain lump sum compensation payments are made into the recipient’s account; and make technical amendments; and Social Security Act 1991
and Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to enable Victoria Cross and decoration allowance recipients to receive a Victoria Cross allowance, decoration allowance or annuity under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
and from a foreign country.
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