Ursula Stephens (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Prime Minister for Social Inclusion) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Boswell, I am advised that it affects the family assistance measures, so it is the family tax benefit A, family tax benefit B, baby bonus and the childcare benefit.

I need to respond to two issues. As I emphasised, Senator Bernardi, this is a compliance measure which was actually taken by the previous government in 2006. There is nothing sinister about this. You talk about people losing benefits that they are supposedly entitled to; this is a system that will be fairer for everyone, and those people who will lose the Commonwealth seniors health card through this measure are those people who are not entitled to the card. They are not entitled to the card for a circumstance—