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• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Energy Assistance Payment and Pensioner Concession Card) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide a one-off energy assistance payment to recipients of the age pension, disability support pension, parenting payment single and certain veterans’ payments who are payable and residing in Australia on 20 June 2017; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide a pensioner concession card to certain social security pensioners and veterans’ payments recipients whose payment or pension was cancelled on 1 January 2017 due to changes in the assets test parameters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Energy Assistance Payment) Bill 2019

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  Date

  03 Apr 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide a one-off energy assistance payment to recipients of the age pension, disability support pension, carer payment, farm household allowance, parenting payment, austudy, ABSTUDY Living Allowance, double orphan pension, newstart allowance, partner allowance, sickness allowance, special benefit, widow allowance, widow pension B, wife pension and youth allowance, and recipients of certain veterans’ payments, who are payable and residing in Australia on 2 April 2019; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide that the energy assistance payment is exempt from income tax. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Pensions) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  and

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

  to increase the assets test free areas and the taper rate by which a pension is reduced once the free areas are exceeded from 1 January 2017; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that people whose pension is nil on 1 January 2017 as a result of the assets test changes will automatically be issued with a Commonwealth seniors health card or a health card. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Assistance Alignment and Other Measures) Bill 2016

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  Date

  20 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

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

  and

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2016

  to provide that clear date of effect rules operate in relation to certain review decisions that create new or increased entitlements to family tax benefit (FTB);

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

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Act 2016

  which proposes to phase out FTB supplements by 1 July 2018; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to correct an error made to the youth allowance rate calculator method statement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Measures) Bill 2015

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  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to reduce to six weeks the period during which family tax benefit (FTB) Part A, and additional payments that rely on FTB eligibility, will be paid to recipients who are outside Australia from 1 January 2016; and the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to cease the large family supplement from 1 January 2016. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Payments Structural Reform and Participation Measures) Bill 2015

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  Date

  21 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to restructure family tax benefit Part B by removing the benefit for couple families (other than grandparents or great-grandparents) with a youngest child 13 years of age or over. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Low Income Supplement) Bill 2015

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  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to cease the low income supplement from 1 July 2017; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  in relation to: special benefit payments; assessment of full-time study load for youth allowance and austudy payments; the definition of new apprentices; exemptions from the assets test for austudy payments; indexation of pharmaceutical allowance; calculating allowable income for the purposes of step 2 of the health care card income test calculator; and technical corrections; and the

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

  to re-align the time period for income reconciliation for certain family tax benefit recipients; and remove a delegation provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (More Generous Means Testing for Youth Payments) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: remove the family assets test and the family actual means test from the youth allowance parental means test arrangements; align parental income test exemptions for youth allowance with existing arrangements for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A; apply a separate maintenance income test for the treatment of child support; and provide that, where a family has a dependent child who receives an individual youth payment that is parentally income-tested and younger siblings who qualify for FTB, the family pool for the youth parental income test will include all FTB children; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to remove maintenance income from the youth allowance parental income test assessment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to: ensure children fully meet immunisation requirements for payment of child care benefit, child care rebate or the family tax benefit Part A supplement; and extend the immunisation requirements to include children of all ages. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum