The government's budget test for Labor

The coalition is pressuring Labor to pass more than $6 billion in budget savings measures it supported during the federal election.

BUDGET MEASURES THE COALITION SAYS LABOR PROMISED TO BACK

* Change repayment thresholds on uni student loans - $3m

* Change higher education indexation - $55m

* End discounts for up-front payment of uni loans - $22m

* End the job commitment bonus for long-term unemployed - $242m

* Cut funding to Australian Renewable Energy Agency - $1.02b

* Freeze Medicare levy and private health insurance rebate income levels - $371m

* Improve compliance with aged care provider funding - $82m

* Cuts to public dental scheme - $52m

* Make all newly-arrived residents wait for welfare, even when joining family - $313m

* Remove grandfathering of student start-up scholarships - $406m

* Interest on debts of former welfare recipients - $387m

* More welfare debt recovery - $208m

* Include parental leave pay as income for welfare purposes - $134m

* Change to fringe benefit totals for assessing family and youth payments - $132m

* Remove backdating provisions for carer allowances - $109m

* Family Tax Benefit Part A changes - $183m

* Treat rental income the same for pension income test as aged care means test - $117m

* Take actual parental income into account for calculating family and student payments - $59m

* Remove clean energy supplement - $1.3b

* Cut rates of R&D tax offsets - $990m

* Introduce single touch payroll reporting for employers - $268m

TOTAL $6.492 billion


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