We supported the passage of new social security legislation
We supported the Government through the second reading in the House of the Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill, which will update and modernise the Social Security Act 1964. We also assisted the Parliamentary Counsel Office to develop a Supplementary Order Paper to remove elements of the Bill that the Government did not consider to be policy neutral, and we supported the Government through the Committee of the Whole House stage [31].
Footnote
[31] The Committee of the Whole House reported the Bill back on 24 July 2018, at which time it was divided into three smaller Bills: a Social Security Bill, a Residential Care and Disability Support Services Bill, and an Artificial Limb Service Bill. The Bills passed their third reading in the House on 18 September 2018, 80 years to the day following the passage of New Zealand’s first Social Security Act in 1938.
