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• 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 Legislation Amendment (Further Simplification of International Payments) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to bring the payment of Australian pensions to people overseas long-term in line with international standards; and standardise the recovery of overpayments to people receiving a foreign pension lump sum arrears payment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (New Zealand Citizens) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Feb 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (One-off Payment to the Aged) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 May 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Special Benefit Activity Test) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to require holders of certain specified visas issued for temporary protection, humanitarian or safe haven purposes to satisfy a special benefit activity test similar to the one that currently operates in relation to newstart allowance, and other newstart allowance conditions;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and Other 2001 Budget Measures) Act 2002

  to ensure that activity test requirements are applied consistently to both special beneficiaries and newstart allowees; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Consequential and Related Measures) Act (No. 2) 1999

  and

  Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (1999 Budget and Other Measures) Act 1999

  to correct cross-references as a result of the enactment of the

  Youth Allowance Consolidation Act 2000

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

  Track (What's this?)

  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 Bill 2000

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Mar 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  and 5 other Acts to: correct various cross-references and drafting errors; simplify and clarify existing provisions; achieve consistency between similar provisions and payments types; and address some unintended consequences of earlier amendments; 6 Acts to: repeal redundant provisions and references; renumber misdescribed provisions; and correct various cross-references;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to introduce changes relating to child care benefits for foster children;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to restore the equivalent legislative position in respect of recovery of certain debts that existed before the introduction of the family assistance law;

  Social Security Act 1991

  in relation to qualification for mobility allowance; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: repeal redundant provisions, references and notes; and renumber misdescribed provisions. Also repeals the

  First Home Owners Act 1983

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

  Track (What's this?)

  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 Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: extend the interim period that applies for recently-established court-ordered care arrangements; and provide incentives for the person with increased care to take reasonable action to participate in family dispute resolution where a care dispute relates to an older court order, a parenting plan or a written agreement;

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: allow the Child Support Registrar to take into account an amended tax assessment in an administrative assessment of child support in certain circumstances; allow courts to set aside child support agreements made before 1 July 2008; and allow all child support agreements to be set aside without having to go to court if certain circumstances change;

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

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to: align the methods for recovery of a child support overpayment from a payee with the methods for recovering a child support debt from a payer; provide that all backdated reductions to a child support assessment collected will be recoverable; and insert new backdating provisions for retrospectively creating a child support overpayment or underpayment due to a change of circumstances; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

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

  to: provide that an individual will have their FTB Part A daily rate reduced by approximately $2.02 per day if their child does not meet the health check requirements under the Healthy Start for School initiative before their fifth birthday or if they do not comply with the immunisation requirements for their child; and allow the secretary to require that requests for certain exemptions from the immunisation requirements be made in a particular form and manner, contain any information and be accompanied by any documents required by the secretary. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum