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• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 2) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to provide former members of the Australian Defence Force with incapacity payments at 100 per cent of their normal weekly earnings where they are studying full time as part of their approved rehabilitation plan;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: create a Veteran Suicide Prevention pilot aimed at providing coordinated care to veterans who have attempted suicide, have suicide ideation or are in crisis; deem a submariner’s service on a submarine on a special submarine operation between 1 January 1978 and 31 December 1992 as operational service; and extend eligibility for the Long Tan Bursary scheme to the grandchildren of a veteran who has operational service in Vietnam; and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to: allow a wholly dependent partner up to 2 years to decide whether to take a lump sum, a pension or a combination of both as compensation for their partner’s death; and enable veterans to lodge a claim for compensation orally. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 1) Bill 2018

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  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to: provide additional support, including childcare arrangements, brief intervention counselling, and additional household services and attendant care, to families and members and former members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) who have rendered warlike service, post 1 July 2004; and enable the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to specify conditions and compensation for household and attendant care services for ADF members who have sustained a catastrophic injury or disease;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to create a Veteran Payment to provide certain veterans with early access to financial support prior to a claim for a mental health condition being determined; enable the automation of a qualifying service determination; update references to the Specialist Medical Review Council; and make technical amendments;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to create a Coordinated Veterans’ Care mental health pilot to provide mental health support for veterans in rural and regional areas;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to make technical amendments in relation to defence-related claims; and

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006

  to extend the gold card eligibility for those members of the ADF who served in Japan prior to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. Also makes consequential amendments to 16 Acts and contingent amendments to three Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2017

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  Date

  24 May 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

  to enable eligible Australian participants in the British Nuclear Testing Program to access treatment for any condition, not just malignant neoplasia; extend eligibility for treatment to Australian veterans of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and civilians present at a British nuclear test area during a relevant period; and amend the short title of the Act to the

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006

  ; 10 Acts to make consequential amendments; the

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to amend the work history requirements for eligibility for the Special or Intermediate Rates of Disability Pension; and the

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to enable the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to determine a class of persons eligible to participate in an early access to rehabilitation pilot programme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Reform) Bill 2009

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  Date

  12 Aug 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Military Memorials of National Significance Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Recognises the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial in Ballarat as a Military Memorial of National Significance and provides that other memorials which meet specified criteria will be similarly recognised. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (International Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2008

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  Date

  19 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Entitlements Legislation Amendment (2007 Election Commitments) Bill 2008

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  Date

  13 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Entitlements Amendment (Disability, War Widow and War Widower Pensions) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007

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  Date

  28 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  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. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Statements of Principles and Other Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans' Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: enable the Repatriation Medical Authority to review one or a number of factors in a Statement of Principles; enable benefits and allowances fixed or calculated by regulations or other legislative instruments to be funded from the Consolidated Revenue Fund; clarify and amend the operation of income streams rules;

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to correct minor errors and anomalies; and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  in relation to access to specified treatment for certain veterans and dependents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum