Significant changes affecting Centrelink payments, vehicle efficiency standards, Australian awards, and various social policies will take effect in Australia on 1 January 2025.
Centrelink payment boosts, new vehicle efficiency standards and changes to 20 Australian awards are among the 1 January changes coming on New Year’s Day 2025. With the new year comes new policies, laws, taxes and reforms. Here’s everything to know about changes on 1 January, 2025 that could affect you. Youth allowance payments to single recipients over 18 who live at home will increase by $17.30 a fortnight from $459.80 to $477.10. Those living away from home will receive $670.
30 instead of $646. Recipients with children will get an extra $30.60 a fortnight, totalling $845.80 a fortnight. Austudy recipients with no dependent children will receive $670.30 a fortnight, while those with children will get $845.80.From 1 January 2025, businesses that underpay their employees can be fined up to $7.8m (corporations) or $1.6m (individuals). Individuals can also face up to 10 years in jail. The offence will only cover underpayments made on or after January 1, including when they are part of conduct that started prior to 1 January. The importation of bench tops, slabs and panels made from engineered stone will be banned, to protect workers from silicosis, a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust. The ban follows the domestic ban on the use, supply and manufacture of engineered stone products from 1 July 2024. As part of a package of reforms aimed at minimising gambling harms, ATMs must be located outside a five-metre radius of gaming areas in a hotel or club in NSW, and must not be visible from gaming machines or entry to gaming areas. Gaming machines and areas must also not be visible from ATMs.The amount you’ll have to spend on out-of-hospital medical costs before being eligible for a higher rebate – also known as the Medicare safety net threshold – will increase from $560.40 to $576. The extended medicare safety net will increase from $811.80 to $834
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