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• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Participation Requirement) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to require persons aged between 16 and 20 years to complete their final year of secondary school (or equivalent level of education) to receive family tax benefit Part A. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Amendment (Further 2008 Budget Measures) Bill 2009

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  Date

  03 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

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

  to: introduce mandatory continuous adjustment of family tax benefit rates in certain circumstances; cease fortnightly family tax benefit and past period payments in the same income year when income tax returns are not lodged; and enable information sharing between the Australian Taxation Office and Centrelink for reconciliation and debt offsetting purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) 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:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to remove the tax system option for delivery of family tax benefit payments;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable people subject to the Northern Territory income management regime to access the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and Administrative Appeals Tribunal appeal mechanisms; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: provide new Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) participants, commencing on or after 1 July 2009, with access to the CDEP program while receiving income support payments; and provide that existing CDEP participants receive CDEP wages from CDEP providers and, in certain circumstances, the CDEP Scheme Participant Supplement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2010

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  Date

  25 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

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

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable: Centrelink to make oral submissions to Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) hearings; SSAT to give oral reasons on ‘affirmed’ cases; and SSAT members to be appointed for a term of up to five years;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to repeal redundant references to disability wage supplement and rehabilitation allowance; and

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  ,

  Native Title Amendment (Technical Amendments) Act 2007

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Further 2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  in relation to the maternity immunisation allowance to: restructure payment of the allowance; extend eligibility to certain adopted children; and modify the rules for determining entitlement;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  in relation to the partner service pension to: cease eligibility for partners who are separated but not divorced from their veteran spouse and who have not reached pension age; and set the eligibility age for partners of veterans in receipt of certain pensions; and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to amend the child support formula in relation to percentage of care, Social Security Appeals Tribunal decisions, departure from assessments, terminating events, minimum annual rates, overseas liabilities and crediting prescribed payments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Emergency Response Consolidation) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  to prohibit certain pay television licensees from providing television channels that contain a large amount of R18+ programming to certain prescribed areas;

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to permit the transportation of pornographic material through a prescribed area to a place outside the prescribed area;

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  to repeal permit system amendments providing public access to certain Aboriginal land; and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  to enable community dependent roadhouses to be licensed as community stores. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work) Bill 2005

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  Date

  09 Nov 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) Bill 2005, the bill amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: increase the number of hours of child care benefit payable without needing to meeting the work/training/study test; and modify the work/training/study test applicable to those who wish to claim up to 50 hours child care benefit in a week. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Family Assistance and Related Measures) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: modify the method of calculating family tax benefit (FTB) Part B for certain secondary earners who return to work after the birth or adoption of a child; expand the maternity payment eligibility criteria to cover children adopted under 2 years of age; set aside and write-off certain family assistance non-lodgment debts; clarify the meaning of “partner”; limit rent assistance and claims for FTB for a past period; preclude FTB advances for certain child support debtors; and introduce an order of reductions for FTB Part B rates;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to prevent duplicate rent assistance payments; and

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

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to provide for cancellation of only the rent assistance portion of a person’s FTB or social security payment for failing to submit a rent certificate review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services and Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Further 2004 Election Commitments and Other Measures) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to introduce a new family tax benefit (FTB) Part B supplement from 1 January 2005;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to replace the existing formula for the child income cut-out amount for FTB with a specified indexed cut-out amount; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to exempt aged care accommodation bonds from the operation of the assets tests. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services and Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (2004 Election Commitments) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to establish the utilities allowance and the seniors concession allowance;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to increase the number of hours that carers may spend in work, training or study, without losing qualification for carer payment;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to provide eligible grandparents with access to child care benefit for up to 50 hours of approved child care a week; and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to increase bereavement payments in respect of persons receiving above general rate disability pension. Also contains application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum