Turnbull government's welfare cuts

WELFARE CUTS APPROVED BY PARLIAMENT

* Freeze family tax benefit rates for two years from July 1;

* Freezing "income-free areas" and "means-test thresholds" for certain payments and allowances for three years;

* Extending waiting periods for parental payments and youth allowance for those who are not full-time students or apprentices; and

* Automating income stream review processes, which the government says will improve the accuracy of income support payments.

MEASURES FROM DUMPED "OMNIBUS" BILL NOT INCLUDED, FATE UNKNOWN:

* Phasing out annual family tax benefit end-of-year supplements;

* 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;

* Ending carbon tax compensation for new welfare recipients;

* Scrapping the pensioner education supplement; and

* Stopping pension payments for people (who've spent less than 35 years of their working life in Australia) after six weeks overseas.