Parliament approves first of government’s budget welfare measures
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Parliament approves first of government’s budget welfare measures The Australian November 17, 2014 2:35PM Patricia Karvelas Victoria Editor Melbourne THE Abbott government has finally passed its social services bill, which has $2.7 billion in net savings over the forward estimates. The revised bill includes a new lower means test on family payments and the tightening of the disability support pension. The bill passed the Senate with ALP and Greens support. Crossbench senators including Bob Day,
Stephen Lunn The Australian July 30, 2011 8:31AM AN estimated four out of every 10 people currently eligible for the Disability Support Pension would fail to qualify for the payment under sweeping reforms to the welfare benefit to be unveiled by the Gillard government today. In the biggest ever crackdown on the burgeoning DSP, the government will today publish proposed new “impairment tables” used to judge who is eligible to claim the benefit, worth $729.30
Blitz on remote dole scheme
Category: The Australian
29th October The Australian UNEMPLOYED Aborigines in remote communities will be forced into work for the dole five days a week, with tough new sanctions for failing to participate, under changes that have in-principle cabinet agreement. Under the new policy, unemployed people with full work capacity would be forced into 25 hours of “work-like” dole activities spread over the week. Sources said there would not be any activities that allowed people to spend their
Monica’s Story: Spinsters Guide to Dole Bludging Purgatory
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Hard Facts I’m a single woman living in share accommodation and I’ve been unemployed for three years now, haven’t done any paid work since 2010, but shush! Don’t tell anybody. I Had a Dream Years ago, many years ago, I decided to go to university in order to become a professional, work in a meaningful job, and earn good money so that I could take care of myself when I got older. Wasn’t
As I’m sure many of you are aware, currently Australia is in the middle of an unemployment crisis. Going by the official figures, around 750,000 people in Australia are unemployed, which marks the highest national rate of unemployment for 12 years. But this figure does not tell the whole story. It does not show that over 200,000 unemployed people are over the age of 50 – a 40% increase since 2010 It does not show