The Turnbull government has put a raft of proposed welfare savings measures on the backburner as it seeks to secure the package of childcare reforms.
Its revised social services bill includes four key savings measures:
* Freezing family tax benefit rates for two years: $1.377 billion (saving about $1.95 billion over the four years to 2021);
* Extending and simplifying waiting periods for parental payments and youth allowance for those not full-time students or apprentices: $189.4 million;
* Three-year freeze on "income-free areas" and "means-test thresholds" for certain payments and allowances: $69 million;
* Automating income stream review processes: $30.2 million.
The government has also backflipped on a proposed spending measure, which it is now touting as a saving:
* Abandoning plans to boost fortnightly family tax payments: $2.3 billion.
There is a raft of welfare cuts not included in the smaller package of cuts, whose fate remains unknown:
* Phasing out annual family tax benefit end-of-year supplements;
* Ending carbon tax compensation for new welfare recipients;
* Making young people wait four weeks before receiving income support;
* Shifting unemployed people aged between 22 and 24 to youth allowance instead of the dole;
* Stopping pension payments for people (who've spent less than 35 years of their working life in Australia) after six weeks overseas;
* Scrapping the pensioner education supplement.
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