Senate debates

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Questions on Notice

Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (Question No. 1872)

Photo of Chris EvansChris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Disability Reform provides the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

Solar panel feed-in tariffs paid as an electricity account credit are not assessed under the income support income test.

The Department of Human Services advised that they cannot separately identify cash solar panel feed-in tariffs income reported by income support recipients. Therefore, the information sought is not available.

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