Second Reading Speeches

Social Security (Helping Pensioners Hit by the Skills Shortage) Bill 2006

Type
Private
Sponsor(s)
EVANS, Sen Chris
Originating house
Senate
Status
Not Proceeding
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the

Social Security Act 1991
to provide a discretion to extend the period in which sale proceeds from a pensioner’s principal home are not included in the assets test for pensioners whose new principal home construction has been unavoidably delayed.

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