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Veterans— Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) 2022
✦ Plain-English Summary
# Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) 2022
**What it does**
This bill increases a key pension rate for veterans under the Veterans' Entitlements Act. Specifically, it raises a pension benchmark amount from $919.40 to $1,595.66. This benchmark is used to calculate various veteran pension payments and related entitlements.
**Why it matters**
Veterans relying on these pensions will see their payments increase. Since the benchmark figure feeds into other payments too, the increase could affect multiple types of veteran support beyond just the base pension rate.
**Key details**
- **The increase**: The benchmark rises by roughly $676 (about 73%), effective from 1 January 2023
- **When it starts**: The changes apply to all pension payments made from 1 January 2023 onwards
- **Who's affected**: Veterans receiving pensions calculated using this benchmark, plus anyone receiving other payments linked to it under Commonwealth law
Official Description
Amends the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 to provide a one-off increase to the pension payable to totally and permanently incapacitated veterans (known as the TPI payment).
Audit History
Introduced
26 Oct 2022
Last updated on APH
10 Apr 2026
Outcome date
30 Nov 2022
Last checked by Crossbench
yesterday
Full text indexed
yesterday
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