Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

As we understand it, this payment—the additional supplement payment—will go to those people who are eligible for the existing $208 education entry payment. The answer to a question on notice that I received following the inquiry said that the projected increase in the number of people that will receive the original payment of $208—because they are to receive both—has not been included in this package. I am wondering if that is going to be picked up by government outside of this package and how, in fact, that will be paid for. It is obviously extra to what was originally budgeted for through the normal budgetary and appropriations process.