Summary

Amends: the

to reduce from 26 to six weeks the period during which age pension and other payments with unlimited portability can be paid outside Australia at the means-tested rate from 1 January 2017; and 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; the and to abolish the pensioner education supplement from 1 January 2016; the , and to abolish the education entry payment from 1 January 2016; and seven Acts to make consequential amendments.