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Amidst the release of a Government committee report saying boosts to jobseeker are urgently needed, our region’s biggest welfare body has chimed in with their views.
However, the Albanese Government looks set to keep unemployment benefits at their current level.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, recently released the interim economic inclusion committee report, which said Jobseeker payments are at “such an inadequate level that they create a barrier to paid work.”
Megan Boshell, our Area Manager for Mission Australia in Dubbo, told the Western Plains App, “Income support payments aren’t enough to keep people out of poverty. We know from the work we do in the community that people living on income support had difficulty getting medication and medical care, ate less or skipped meals, and almost all living in private rentals experience rental stress”…