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SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT (STUDENT INCOME SUPPORT REFORMS) BILL 2011

                                      2010-2011


       THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA


                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


    SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT (STUDENT INCOME SUPPORT
                     REFORMS) BILL 2011


           CORRECTION TO THE EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM


GENERAL OUTLINE

Paragraph 5 - Line 2 - delete: "In addition, no transitional or retrospective
arrangements will be in place for young people who left secondary school in 2009 and
2010."

SCHEDULE 1

Part 1 - Item 1 - at the end of Item 1, insert new paragraph: "The new independence
arrangements will be available to young people from Inner Regional Australia from 1
January 2012, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria. Where a young person from
Inner Regional Australia left school prior to 2012 and has been in the workforce,
employment undertaken since leaving school will be taken into account when
assessing whether they have met the criteria, even if that work was done prior to 1
January 2012."

Part 2 - Item 4 - at the end of the first paragraph - insert new sentence: "It also
ensures that the new relocation scholarships values apply to all recipients from the
commencement of this provision on 1 January 2012."

Part 2 - Item 4 - after the first paragraph insert new paragraph: "This means, for
instance, that an eligible relocation scholarship recipient who received the higher
payment in 2011 for their first year of living away to study and who is from a regional
or remote area will be entitled to the new higher ($2000) rate of relocation scholarship
in 2012 for their second year of living away to study."



   (Circulated by authority of the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and
             Workplace Relations, Senator the Honourable Chris Evans)
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