Announcements are ‘good steps’ to reduce harms caused by employment services system but fall short of the overhaul required, advocates say
The Albanese government will relax some of the requirements imposed job seekers as a condition for their income support, with a suite of changes expected to prevent around 1m welfare payment suspensions every year.
Guardian Australia revealed in October that those receiving jobseeker payments had their welfare payments suspended more than 450,000 times between July and September last year, withSign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup A Department of Employment and Workplace Relations spokesperson told Guardian Australia the change would mean approximately 70,000 people would “no longer be required to provide multiple medical certificates for the same medical condition to receive an exemption for the full duration of their incapacity”.
While welcoming some of the changes, advocates argued the announcements still fell short of what was required to fix what they viewed as a punitive and harmful system, which the parliamentary review likened to “using a nuclear bomb to kill a mosquito”.
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