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Centrelink report prompts call for welfare system rebuild
Centrelink paperwork is making it harder for people to find jobs as they skip meals and struggle to make ends meet, a new study has found.
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Centrelink paperwork is making it harder for people to find jobs as they skip meals and struggle to make ends meet, a new study has found.
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Major changes to Centrelink’s Jobactive scheme were among the measures contained in this week’s federal budget, with the unemployed to “self-manage” their job seeking online, with those unsuccessful after six months to be referred to job providers.
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A “wave of payment suspensions” are predicted by welfare advocates when mutual obligation and job search rules tighten and a “dob seeker” employer hotline is introduced next month.
About $35 million a month will be stripped from the South Australian economy when the JobSeeker coronavirus supplement is axed in March, according to analysis of data from federal electorates and the federal Parliamentary Library.
The Morrison government has been warned that reducing the JobSeeker dole payment to its pre-pandemic level after a coronavirus supplement ends on March 31 will result in a national crisis.
Australia’s peak welfare group wants unemployment support payments to be raised in line with the pension, to prevent people from entering poverty.
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