Opinion
The $25 a week JobSeeker increase comes with stricter job search demands and an employer ‘dob-in’ phone service. Frances Flanagan argues the coercive measures continue a long history of stigmatising the unemployed.
National
Some welfare recipients could soon be permanently stuck with cashless debit cards – but taxpayers are not allowed to know how much the scheme will cost.
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JobSeeker payments for more than one million unemployed Australians will be slashed by $300 a fortnight from tomorrow as coronavirus supplements are wound back – with reduced payments for the next few months to be worth an average $58 a day compared with $40 before the pandemic.
Many of the hundreds of thousands of Australians expected to lose their jobs before Christmas due to cuts to the JobKeeper subsidy could be forced to wait months for unemployment income support.
People anxious about having JobKeeper payments reduced or withdrawn are being urged to check their eligibility for the JobSeeker unemployment benefit.
More than 1.35 million JobSeeker recipients will soon need to start looking for more work or face cuts to their payments, with the Morrison government ratcheting up mutual obligation requirements wound down during the pandemic.
