House debates Bills

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017; Consideration of Senate Message

Monday, 26 March 2018 House of Representatives

Dan Tehan

Dan Tehan Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services

12:37 pm

The reason for this Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 is that we want to simplify the complexity around Newstart and other payments, and that's what we do by creating the jobseeker payment. We are bringing seven payments into one. This was what the McClure report recommended. That is what the government are doing. We want to make sure that we have a simple welfare system that is easy for people to navigate.

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