Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs and the Voluntary Sector) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s Centrelink website, which states: ‘If you are not eligible for the childcare benefit, you will not get the childcare rebate.’ Can the Prime Minister confirm that last night’s budget means that eligibility for the childcare benefit has been capped to families earning less than $110,000 a year? Does this change mean that parents earning more than $110,000 will not be eligible for the 50 per cent childcare tax rebate? I ask: why has the government imposed what looks like a stealth means test on the working families of Australia?

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