What the official record says
This Act is the Social Security (Winter Energy Payment) Amendment Act . comes into force, or is taken to have come into force, on . The rest of this Act comes into force on the day after the date of Royal assent. This Act amends the Social Security Act 2018 (the ). Replace section 72(2)(c) and (d) with: the person is aged 65 years or over, is a qualifying person as defined in section 12 of the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018, and must under section 17 of that Act pay a contribution based on income towards the cost of that person’s LTR contracted care that is less than the maximum contribution (as defined in section 15(2) of that Act); or the person is aged 50 to 64 years, is a 50+ single person as defined in section 21 of the Residential Care and Disability Suppo