Second Reading Speeches

Farm Household Support Amendment (Additional Drought Assistance Measures) Bill 2008

Type
Government
Portfolio
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Act
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the:

Farm Household Support Act 1992
and
Social Security Act 1991
to: increase the maximum allowable income exemption for the Exceptional Circumstances Relief Payment (ECRP); and extend the ECRP to more agriculture-dependent small business operators; and
Farm Household Support Act 1992
to enable ECRP recipients to continue to receive payments while temporarily absent from Australia for specific family or humanitarian reasons.

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