This time, it`s done.
On the evening of December 3, the Federal Parliament of Australia formally passed a bill to extend the waiting period for new PR benefits to a maximum of four years. In other words, this has been finalized,
It will be implemented from January 1 next year.
The details of the bill are as follows:
New immigrants granted permanent technical or family visas
1. The waiting period for receiving work-age benefits is extended from the current two years to four years, such as the Newstart (unemployment benefit) benefit, and the preferential card (concessions card).
2. Recipients` allowance (carer payment), paid maternity leave (parental leave pay), parent or partner benefit (dad and partner pay) `s waiting period is extended from the current one year to two years.
3, the caretaker benefit (carer allowance) and milk gold (family tax benefit part A) from the current non-waiting period to wait for one year.
This means that people who get PR in Australia in the future will have to wait twice as long as they are now to start receiving benefits, which may be equivalent to a few thousand less dollars in money..
With a variety of benefits notes:
Newstart (unemployment Allowance): this is a benefit for people who temporarily lose a job or are looking for a job.
Paid Maternity Allowance (parental leave pay): is an allowance for the primary caregiver of the newborn (usually the mother of the child).
Father or partner benefits (dad and partner pay):, which is usually paid to the father of the newborn.
Caregiver`s allowance (carer payment): if you continue to take care of a child, an adult with severe disability or illness, or an elderly and infirm person, you can receive this allowance, which requires an income and asset test before you receive it.
Caregiver benefit (carer allowance): if you take extra care of a child per day, disabled or sick adults or elderly infirm persons, you can receive this supplementary allowance without the need for income and asset testing prior to receiving it.
Milk gold (family tax benefit part A): `s family has children who can receive this benefit.
If there are still friends are not clear how this is the case, Xiao Wei also to explain to everyone. As we all know, Australia`s government has a variety of welfare subsidies, these subsidies can only be received by Australia`s citizen or PR.
However, after you get the Australian PR, you can`t get it right away. You have to wait for a while, that is, the so-called "waiting period".
At present, with the exception of family benefits, the waiting period for most of Australia`s welfare subsidies is 104 weeks, that is, two years.
Later, the ruling Unionparty put forward a proposal to extend the waiting period for all benefits to four years.
Fortunately, Labour did not agree to the proposal and, after negotiations, doubled the waiting period for part of the benefits to a maximum of four years.
Last week, the bill was passed by the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament. On the evening of December 3, it was passed in the Senate as a formal bill.
Australia`s government is doing this to save money. Australian media said the policy could save Australian government A $1.3 billion in four years
However, the waiting period policy does not apply to citizen, refugee, Australia, or single-parent immigrant families or families with only one source of income.
These days, Australia`s government wants to cut the number of immigrants and reduce the benefits of immigrants. We are prepared to do so, and we don`t know what else will happen.
