This proposal has two components.

• Component 1: For those payments listed below:
  • increase the maximum single payment rate by $75 a week
  • change the indexation arrangements to those used to index the age pension.
    • Newstart Allowance
    • Youth Allowance (other – living away from home only)
    • ABSTUDY (non-tertiary)
    • Sickness Allowance
    • Special Benefit
    • Widow Allowance
    • Crisis Payment
    • Jobseeker Payment
    • Parenting Payment Single.
  • Component 1 would also remove the pause on the indexation of the income-test-free area threshold for Parenting Payment Single
• Component 2: Increase the Parenting Payment Single qualifying age of the youngest dependent child from eight to 16 years of age.

The proposal would have effect from 1 July 2019.