Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Repeal of Cashless Debit Card and Other Measures) Act 2022 (39 of 2022)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1B   Stage 1B amendments

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

48K   Section 123SB

Insert:

balance of the qualified portion , of acategory G welfare payment, means:

(a) if a deduction is to be made from, or an amount is to be set off against, the payment under:

(i) section 61, 61A or 238 of this Act; or

(ii) section 1231 of the 1991 Act; or

(iii) section 84, 84A, 92, 92A, 225, 226, 227 or 228A of the Family Assistance Administration Act;

the amount of the qualified portion of the payment less the amount of the deduction or the amount of the set-off; or

(b) in any other case - the amount of the qualified portion of the payment.

Bundaberg and Hervey Bay area means the area within the boundaries of the Division (within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918) of Hinkler, as those boundaries were in force on 31 May 2018.

category F welfare payment means:

(a) a social security benefit; or

(b) a disability support pension; or

(c) a carer payment; or

(d) a pension PP (single); or

(e) a payment under the scheme known as the ABSTUDY scheme that includes an amount identified as living allowance.

category G welfare payment means:

(a) a category F welfare payment; or

(b) double orphan pension; or

(c) family tax benefit under the Family Assistance Act; or

(d) family tax benefit advance under the Family Assistance Administration Act; or

(e) stillborn baby payment under the Family Assistance Act; or

(f) carer allowance; or

(g) child disability assistance; or

(h) carer supplement; or

(i) mobility allowance; or

(j) pensioner education supplement; or

(k) telephone allowance under Part 2.25 of the 1991 Act; or

(l) utilities allowance under Part 2.25A of the 1991 Act; or

(m) a distance education payment under the scheme known as the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme, where the payment relates to a child or children at a Homelands Learning Centre; or

(n) a payment under the scheme known as the ABSTUDY scheme that includes an amount identified as pensioner education supplement; or

(o) a social security bereavement payment; or

(p) an advance payment under Part 2.22 of the 1991 Act; or

(q) an advance pharmaceutical allowance under Part 2.23 of the 1991 Act; or

(r) a mobility allowance advance under section 1045 of the 1991 Act.

Ceduna area means Ceduna within the meaning of the Social Security (Administration) (Trial Area - Ceduna and Surrounding Region) Determination 2015 as in force on 15 March 2016 and includes the Surrounding Region (within the meaning of that determination as so in force).

East Kimberley area means East Kimberley within the meaning of the Social Security (Administration) (Trial Area – East Kimberley) Determination 2016 as in force on 26 April 2016 and includes the areas of each of the Included Communities (within the meaning of that determination as so in force).

Goldfields area means the following Local Government Areas as at 7 February 2018:

(a) the Shire of Leonora;

(b) the Shire of Laverton;

(c) the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder;

(d) the Shire of Coolgardie;

(e) the Shire of Menzies.

Local Government Areas means areas designated by the Governor of Western Australia to be a city, town or shire, in accordance with the Local Government Act 1995 (WA).

qualified portion , of a category G welfare payment, has the meaning given by section 123SP.

unqualified portion , of a category G welfare payment, has the meaning given by section 123SP.

voluntary enhanced income management agreement has the meaning given by section 123SF.