More than 17,300 welfare recipients will be transitioned off the Coalition’s controversial scheme.
from September, with Labor’s legislation to wind up the controversial scheme due to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday.
Transition arrangements will take place in communities including Bundaberg and Hervey Bay, the East Kimberley, Ceduna and the Goldfields region.Ms Rishworth said she had listened to welfare recipients, community leaders, Indigenous Australians and service providers. Winding up the card is expected to save the budget about $286.5 million over four years, according to Parliamentary Budget Office figures.
During the election campaign, Labor MPs fuelled concerns that all elderly Australians would be required to use the cashless card under a re-elected Coalition government, despite denials from then prime minister Scott Morrison and social services minister Anne Ruston.
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