Tag: Youth Allowance
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Marriage for Money: The Youth Allowance Loophole
Students are no strangers to being kicked in the guts by successive governments who offer underwhelming changes to what little income support they are entitled to. The latest increase of 6% to Youth Allowance may look good at a glance, until you consider the fact that inflation has breached 7%. There is, however, an additional…
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Welfare Policies Allowing Unnecessary Poverty
The Federal Government is being pushed to increase the rate of Newstart allowance following warnings that it is falling significantly behind the adequate minimum amount needed for the unemployed and low income earners to survive day to day. The report prepared by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling for church welfare agencies has…