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  • Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment Bill 2018

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    Date
    22 Aug 2018 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans' Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to authorise the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to deduct an overpayment of a service pension, income support supplement or social security pension from a specified payment paid to the surviving partner, where the partner had the benefit of that overpayment and the overpayment was due to the death of the deceased. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment Bill 2011

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    Date
    01 Jun 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans’ Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to: create a prisoner of war recognition supplement; and clarify when compensation offsetting applies;
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    ,
    Social Security Act 1991
    and
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to make consequential amendments; and
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    and
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to abolish the temporary incapacity allowance. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Income Support Measures) Bill 2010

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    Date
    10 Mar 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans’ Affairs 
    Summary
    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. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Expanded Gold Card Access) Bill 2015

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    Date
    11 Nov 2015 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
    LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to provide that all veterans, including former members of the Defence Force and members of a peacekeeping force, who have served in war or war-like operations, are eligible for medical treatment, regardless of whether the condition or injury was caused by war or contracted during war or war-like operations. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Claims for Travel Expenses) Bill 2010

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    Date
    28 Sep 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Portfolio
    Prime Minister 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to extend the time period for lodging a claim for non-treatment related travel expenses to 12 months and enable further extensions of time in exceptional circumstances. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

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    Date
    12 Nov 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Portfolio
    Prime Minister 
    Summary
    Amends the
    War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920
    to amend the short title to the
    Protection of Word ‘Anzac’ Act 1920
    ; and remove redundant provisions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

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    Date
    27 Jun 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Portfolio
    Veterans’ Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
    and
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to clarify arrangements for the payment of travel expenses for treatment;
    Defence Service Homes Act 1918
    to extend eligibility for benefits;
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to provide that reimbursements made under the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme are exempt from income tax;
    Social Security Act 1991
    to provide that certain bereavement payments in respect of indigent veterans or members are exempt income for the purposes of the social security income test;
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to: align maintenance income and attendant allowance provisions with those in the
    Social Security Act 1991
    ; provide for provision of special assistance by inclusion in a legislative instrument; clarify administrative arrangements for certain travel; and clarify that debt recovery provisions apply to all provisions of the Act, the regulations and any legislative instrument made under the Act;
    War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920
    to: amend the long and short titles of the Act; and repeal inoperative provisions; and
    Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Act 2012
    ,
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
    and
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010

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    Date
    21 Oct 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Veterans’ Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
    and
    Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
    to provide for weekly payments of certain periodic payments to persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

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    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

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