Consultation
Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) Reform living-away-from-home benefits
Name
Miss Colette Roberts
Organisation
Email
collette.roberts@akersolutions.com
Are you submitting on behalf of your Company
No
Do you want your submission to be confidential
No
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Yes
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Submission text
I am a 457 Visa holder from the UK currently working in Perth WA. I am the main wage earner currently supporting my family (husband, and 3 children aged 2 years, 5 years and 13 years). I am not a high wage earner, and earn less than $80k a year, as a temporary visa holder we are not entitled to any benefit assistance and the LAFHA currently helps to supplement my pay. 
My husband is a stay at home dad as we cannot afford to place our youngest into full time day care and to also pay for before and after school care for our other 2 children. 
With the LAFHA now disappeARing this puts our family in a very difficult position financially, and with nowhere to turn have very few options. If you are taking away LAFHA, have you put any thought into how this is going to affect families currently on 457 visa's? 
Are you going to put anything into place to assistant temporary visa holder's and their children?