A little over 18 months ago I wrote a post
about the way in which the Austudy income test seemed to me to be only
half-built, causing substantial financial losses for some couples. I finished it with a comment that the problem
would only get worse over time. There
will be a few changes to Austudy payment from 1 January 2014, so with that earlier
comment in mind I thought it might be interesting to see how the problem looks once
these are in place. And here’s a spoiler
– it isn’t pretty.
