Government excludes age pension from review of ‘unsustainable’ welfare spending
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ABC NEWS 21 Jan 2014 The Federal Government says the age pension will be excluded from a wide-ranging review of the welfare system. The review into the Disability Support Pension (DSP) and the Newstart allowance is due to be handed to the Government in February and is likely to recommend making it tougher for people to qualify for the payments. Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews says a new report shows income support payments are
The Drum 16 January 2013 We’re all subject to the swings of fortune. We shouldn’t have to debate whether we extend a hand of compassion or punish one another for bad luck, writes Eliza Cussen. I was on Newstart Allowance for six months between finishing uni – Bachelor of Media (Honours), thanks for asking – and landing my first job in 2010. I had been living in relative poverty throughout my student years, and
The Sydney Morning Herald September 5th, 2012 On this site last week the Centre for Independent Studies acknowledged that the payment may be too low but argued that not every unemployed person needs an increase. So the search is on for those unemployed people who can live on $35 a day. Some argue that people can live on the payment as long as they don’t have to rely on it for more than a year at
Sky News 14th February, 2014 Jobs growth in January is expected to have bounced after a weak result in December, but not enough to prevent another small rise in the unemployment rate. Official labour force figures to be released on Thursday are expected to show the number of people with jobs rose by 15,000 in January, after a surprise fall of 22,600 in December. January’s unemployment rate is forecast to rise to 5.9
The Sydney Morning Herald 20th November 2013 Australians in full-time work are doing more unpaid overtime than ever before, while the unemployed and those with a part-time job struggle to find enough to do, a new report shows. It comes as separate federal government research shows that more than a third of the nation’s mothers with children under 15 are also not in paid employment – one of the lowest in the developed world.