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• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Family Participation Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: commence a 3.5 year trial on 1 January 2012 requiring certain teenage parents residing in certain areas who receive parenting payment to develop and sign an Employment Pathway Plan; suspend income support for teenage parents who fail to participate in the plan without a reasonable excuse; commence a three-year trial on 1 July 2012 requiring certain jobless family members who are receiving parenting payment to develop and sign an Employment Pathway Plan; and provide that parents in either of these trials do not lose entitlement to other payments if they fail to comply with trial requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Green Army Programme) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: specify that persons receiving a green army allowance under the Green Army Programme (GAP) cannot also receive a social security benefit or pension; provide that certain participants in the GAP are not considered workers or employees for the purposes of various laws; and specify the income testing arrangements to apply to a social security pensioner if their partner is receiving a green army allowance; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Consequent on the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) Bill 2009, the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  in relation to: redundant references; activity test relief; short term or episodic carers qualification for a health card; and principal beneficiaries of special disability trusts;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to: redundant references; and backdating claims for carer payments made between 1 July and 1 October 2009; and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  in relation to principal beneficiaries of special disability trusts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: enable a person who qualifies for a carer payment to automatically qualify for a carer allowance; provide that the qualification criteria and assessment process for carer payments for care provided to children with a disability or medical condition will be based on the level of care required; and allow a person to qualify or remain qualified for a carer payment while a child care receiver is in hospital for an unlimited number of days per calendar year; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make consequential changes to the administrative structure for the carer allowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Increased Employment Participation) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that job seekers aged from 18 to 30 years who have been receiving newstart or youth allowance for at least 12 months will be eligible to receive a $2500 tax free payment (the first job commitment bonus) if they remain in gainful work and off income support for a continuous period of at least 12 months, and a further $4000 tax free payment (the second bonus) if they remain in continuous gainful work for an additional 12 months;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide that the job commitment bonus is not subject to income tax; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide financial assistance through the Relocation Assistance to Take Up a Job program to job seekers receiving newstart, youth allowance or parenting payments; and provide that recipients of relocation assistance who leave employment without a reasonable excuse within six months incur a 26-week non-payment period before becoming eligible to receive unemployment benefits again. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Job Seeker Compliance) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that social security payment for job seekers will be suspended when they fail to attend appointments with employment services providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (One-off Payments for Carers) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide for one-off payments to carer service pension, carer allowance and carer payment recipients. Also provides for an administrative scheme (to be determined by legislative instrument) for payments if the statutory one-off payments regime does not produce an appropriate result. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Remote Engagement Program) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Indigenous Australians 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide for a supplementary payment to be made to eligible job seekers in remote engagement program pilot communities so that they can engage in activities or placements that are like having a job;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Act 2021

  ; and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to remove redundant provisions relating to the former Community Development Employment Projects Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: create a single set of employment pathway plan requirement provisions, which will allow better use of technology, enabling job seekers more choice about how they enter into an employment pathway plan and meet the requirements of that plan; repeal certain redundant and outdated 'activity test' provisions; create a single set of criteria for exemptions from mutual obligation requirements; provide legislative authority for expenditure on employment programs; and repeal certain redundant provisions;

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to make consequential amendments;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to amend the targeted compliance framework to provide that sanctions need not be imposed when recipients of participation payments have a valid reason for failing to meet their requirements or immediately re-engage;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: allow payments or benefits from Commonwealth and state and territory employment programs to not be considered income for social security law purposes; provide that the declaration of an approved program of work for income support payment is by legislative instrument; consolidate certain provisions in relation to activities that do not give rise to employment under certain industrial relations legislation; clarify that those receiving youth allowance as a job seeker continue to be treated as such when undertaking study as part of their requirements; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018

  ; and

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to align the start day provisions for certain job seekers claiming jobseeker payment or youth allowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Job Seeker Compliance Framework) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Sep 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: provide that: from 1 January 2015, where a job seeker’s payment is suspended following a failure to attend an appointment with their employment services provider, it will not be restored until the job seeker attends their next appointment; and from 1 July 2015, if it is determined that a job seeker has no reasonable excuse for missing their first appointment, they will not be back paid for the period of non-compliance; and broaden the existing delegation powers to include regulations or other instruments; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to exclude certain job seekers aged 55 years or over from certain concessional treatment otherwise available. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum