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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 (Queensland Commission Income Management Regime) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable income management to continue in Cape York and Doomadgee for a further two years until 30 June 2019. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Seasonal Worker Incentives for Jobseekers) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to trial a social security income test incentive aimed at increasing the number of job seekers who undertake specified seasonal horticultural work, such as fruit picking. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: pause for three years the indexation of various income thresholds that apply to certain social security benefits and allowances and the income test free area for parenting payment single; extend the ordinary waiting period to youth allowance (other) and parenting payment; include additional evidentiary requirements for the ‘severe financial hardship’ exemption from the ordinary waiting period; and remove the ability for claimants to serve the ordinary waiting period concurrently with other waiting periods;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable automation of the regular income stream review process; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to maintain the standard family tax benefit (FTB) child rates for two years, from 1 July 2017, in the maximum and base rate of FTB Part A and the maximum rate of FTB Part B. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Services Amendment (Linking Upper Age Limits for Disability Employment Services to Pension Age) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Disability Services Act 1986

  to link the upper age limit of the Disability Employment Services - Disability Management Service program to the age pension eligibility age under the

  Social Security Act 1991

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

  Track (What's this?)

  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 (Simplifying Student Payments) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: remove the assets test exemption for youth allowance and austudy payment recipients whose partner receives certain income support payments; extend the means test rules used to assess interests in trusts and companies to independent youth allowance and austudy payment recipients; align income test treatment of gift payments from immediate family members with existing pension rules; harmonise the family tax benefit and youth allowance parental income tests by including tax free pensions and benefits as income for the parental income test; ensure that all students receiving income support receive a health care card; and enable the Australian Statistical Geography Standard remoteness structure used to assess eligibility for student payments to be automatically updated. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

  to increase the maximum number of board members of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency to 12 members, including the Chair; and clarify the quorum arrangements for board meetings. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Act 2015

  to give effect to a mediated settlement agreement in a representative proceeding in the Federal Court of Australia (

  Duval-Comrie v Commonwealth of Australia

  (VID 1367 of 2013)) and make administrative changes by: increasing one-off payments from 50 per cent to 70 per cent of the difference between the actual wage paid to an eligible person and the amount they would have been paid had the Business Services Wage Assessment Tool (BSWAT) productivity-only component been applied; providing a ‘top up’ payment for persons who have already received a 50 per cent payment under the BSWAT payment scheme; removing the current compulsory requirement to obtain legal advice before any payments are made; extending all relevant scheme dates by 12 months; clarifying certain administrative arrangements; and enabling a deceased person’s legal personal representative to engage with the payment scheme on their behalf. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Family Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  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