Senate debates Bills

Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017; In Committee


Louise Pratt

Louise Pratt WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment and Water (Senate)

6:48 pm

Thank you. I am now some way towards understanding what you're doing here. It goes back to the top-up payment, as it was attached to the daily rate of a person's youth allowance plus the top-up, which is not as much as it would've been over the equivalent time. So you have calculated a top-up that is relative to the age pension as it stands currently, but it will maintain its relativity to the original payment, not to the age pension?

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