Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, thank you. The second one is that that does not take into account that under the current law people who do not have a large enough tax liability to offset it are clearly at zero. These people will be brought into the net when it becomes a Centrelink payment and of course constituents and families are not going to be required to keep their receipts. They will receive money, even though they do not necessarily have a tax liability or a big enough tax liability. So it will differ very much. It will be as little as a few dollars, depending on their out-of-pocket expenses and then 30 per cent thereof, if they use very little child care. But the expectation is that it will be in the order of $300 to $500. The advice that I have received is that that seems to be fairly normal. The $800 we have already dealt with and the $8,000 would be for a family for whom 30 per cent of their out-of-pocket expenses is $4,000 and they have one child and that child has been in care for two years. I do not have the specific numbers with me, but of course if they have two children then it could quite feasibly be $16,000. Families have to remember that it is in fact per child per year and, because of the way we have now brought it forward, they will have the bonus of receiving those two payments, one when they put their tax in, any time after 1 July this year, and the other one commencing some time after September when it will start to roll out.

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