Migrants will be forced to wait up to 15 years before qualifying for aged or disability pensions under new laws bound for federal parliament.

The Turnbull government is also reviving a push to cut off the pension supplement payment to people after six weeks overseas, as part of a bundle of welfare cuts expected to net almost $900m in savings.

The social services minister, Christian Porter, argues it is reasonable to expect people coming to Australia have contributed to the economy and society before claiming a pension.

Under existing laws, people must have been an Australian resident for 10 years – five of which must be continuous – before applying for a pension.

The government wants to extend this to 10 years of continuous residence – including five years during a person’s working life – before they can seek a pension. Alternatively, migrants may claim a pension after 15 years of continuous residence.

“This will mean that most people accessing the pension will have made some contribution to the Australian economy through paid work and paying taxes before they receive a pension,” Porter said on Wednesday.

The measure will only affect about 2,400 people a year but is expected to save roughly $119m over the forward estimates. Nobody who now receives a pension would be impacted and only 2% of applicants beyond July 2018 are expected to be affected.

The government is also trying again to stop pension supplement payments to people who have been overseas for six weeks and immediately for permanent departures after previously failing to get the measure through parliament.

The pension supplement payment is worth between $35.40 and $65.90 a fortnight.

Other welfare proposals are also woven into legislation to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday:

Increasing the maximum income test taper of family tax benefit A from 20c to 30c a dollar once a family’s income exceeds a threshold of $94,316.



Doubling the maximum time somebody has to wait for Newstart, study, sickness or youth allowance if they have liquid assets (such as cash) from 13 to 26 weeks.



Pegging pensioner education supplements and education entry payment rates to study loans and time spent studying.



Restricting student relocation scholarships to people studying in Australia and whose parental family home or usual place of residence is also in Australia. This would mean students relocating from or studying overseas would no longer be eligible for the scholarship.