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Portability - Working Age Payments

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Status: Answered, finished
Asked by: Senator Wendy Askew
Portfolio: Social Services
Agency: Department of Social Services
Round: 2026-27 Budget estimates
Question No: DSS SQ26-000783
Asked: 3 June 2026
Answer due: 23 July 2026

Question

Senator ASKEW: The portability for each of the payments is six weeks; is that correct? Mr Flavel: We covered this with Senator Ruston. I've agreed to take some things on notice in relation to those arrangements. Senator ASKEW: That was about overseas travel and so on? I'm sorry, I wasn't here. Mr Lye: Yes. That's okay. We agreed with her that we'd give her all the things that she's breaking down for other payment types for working age, but-

Answer

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