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• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Youth Allowance Consequential and Related Measures) Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Mar 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Security portfolio 

  Bill

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Youth Jobs Path: Prepare, Trial, Hire) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that fortnightly incentive payments made to young job seekers undertaking internships under the Youth Jobs PaTH do not affect social security payments or veterans’ entitlements; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that young job seekers employed by a Youth Jobs PaTH employer may have their social security payments suspended rather than cancelled in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory framework, the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable income management to be triggered by referrals from state and territory agencies; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: enable the minister to specify states, territories or areas in which the vulnerable, long-term welfare payment and disengaged youth income management measures will apply; provide that income management continues despite a change in residence; and provide that certain parents may be required to enter into a school attendance plan and may have income support payments suspended if the plan is not complied with. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (2014 Budget Measures No. 6) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Oct 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  The bill amends: six Acts to rename the clean energy supplement as the energy supplement and cease indexation of the supplement from 20 September 2014; the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to pause indexation of assets value limits for working age allowances, student payments and parenting payment single for two years from 1 July 2015; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: require certain disability support pension recipients to actively participate in a program of support; limit the six-week overseas portability period for students payments from 1 January 2015; limit the overseas portability period for disability support pension from 1 January 2015; extend to 19 weeks the portability period for seniors health cardholders; and restrict qualification for relocation scholarship payments; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: pause indexation on assets test free areas for all pensions (other than parenting payment single) for three years from 1 July 2017; exclude from the social security and veterans’ entitlements income test payments made under the Young Carer Bursary Programme from 1 January 2015; and include tax-free superannuation income in the assessment of income for qualification for the seniors health card; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  in relation to family tax benefit (from 1 July 2015) by: limiting the large family supplement; removing the per-child add-on; and reducing the primary earner income limit; the

  Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Act 2012

  to provide that the State pay equity order (Western Australia) made on 29 August 2013 is a pay equity order for the purposes of the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account and amend the amounts by which the account will be credited accordingly; and the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  , Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act Scheme 2004 and Veterans’ Children Education Scheme to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Coronavirus and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends: six Acts to provide for two rounds of additional economic support payments of $250 to certain income support recipients and holders of eligible concession cards; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: recognise the six month period between 25 March and 24 September 2020 as contributing to existing workforce independence criteria for youth allowance; and create a temporary pathway for young Australians, who are seeking to qualify as independent for the purposes of assessing youth allowance (student), to encourage them to undertake seasonal agricultural work; the

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to temporarily extend the paid parental leave work test period from 13 months prior to the birth or adoption of a child to 20 months for parents who have had their employment impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to increase the maximum amount that eligible families are able to access after a stillbirth or a child's death shortly after birth up to the child's first birthday, irrespective of whether this is their first or subsequent claim; and the

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to enable the minister to determine average weekly earnings trend figures ordinarily published by the Australian Statistician, for child support assessment purposes, where the publication of this trend figure has been suspended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Extension of Coronavirus Support) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: extend the COVID-19 supplement to 31 March 2021 for all persons in receipt of youth allowance, including full time students and new apprentices; extend the temporary COVID-19 qualification rules for jobseeker payment and youth allowance to 31 March 2021; end the COVID-19 exemptions from the liquid assets test waiting period and assets tests from 1 January 2021; and temporarily enable the minister to determine modifications to specified provisions of the social security law in response to COVID-19;

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide that the COVID-19 supplement and the exemptions from the ordinary waiting period, newly arrived resident's waiting period and seasonal work preclusion period cannot be extended beyond 31 March 2021; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to introduce a discretionary power to extend the principal home exemption temporary absence provisions for the purposes of the social security and veterans' entitlements assets tests. Also permits jobkeeper information provided to Services Australia on or before 28 March 2021 to continue to be used after that date. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide that offences for providing false and misleading statements or documents apply to circumstances when the information is not provided to a natural person; four Acts to require a person served with a formal notice or summons by a Royal Commission to produce documents or information, or give evidence, to comply with that requirement even if the document or information is protected by secrecy provisions; and six Acts to make technical and consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Loans Scheme Enhancements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to: introduce a no negative equity guarantee to the pension loans scheme; and enable participants to access an advance of their entitlement to regular pension loans scheme payments; and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Promoting Sustainable Welfare) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the newly arrived resident’s waiting period (NARWP) from 104 weeks to 156 weeks for certain social security payments and concession cards; introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for bereavement allowance, widow allowance, parenting payment and carer allowance; and make a technical amendment;

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to increase the NARWP from 104 weeks to 156 weeks;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for family tax benefit; and

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  to introduce a NARWP of 156 weeks for parental leave pay and dad and partner pay. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Seniors Health Card and Other Measures) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to annually index income thresholds for the Commonwealth seniors health card; the

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to align provisions in relation to the operation of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) with similar provisions in social security and related laws; the

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

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to ensure that a statement of reasons for an SSAT decision is provided to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal if there is to be a review of the decision; six Acts to reflect machinery of government changes; and the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make technical amendments, including a restructure of the Part of the Act that deals with definitions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum