Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am about to go to the question that was asked. First and foremost I say to the shadow Treasurer that when it comes to compensation for the government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme all low-income households will receive full assistance. Secondly, I say to the shadow Treasurer that 50 per cent of middle-income households will receive full assistance. Practically all middle-income households will receive some assistance and finally 92 per cent of all households will receive assistance. On average these households will receive about $660 of compensation or be about $60 better off as a result of the CPRS. In the definition of the thresholds of household income, which goes to the actual question that the honourable gentlemen asked, the definition of low household income as far as a single income is concerned is $30,000, for a couple without children it is $45,000, for a couple with children it is $60,000—

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