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Covering the cost of weekly essentials is leaving Australians on JobSeeker and other welfare payments with little left over to pay other bills or incidental expenses. A single person out of work and living in a shared house would have just $127 of income each week after covering three core weekly expenses of rent, transport and food.
Community and welfare groups such as Anglicare have long been calling for a substantial boost to JobSeeker and Youth Allowance to lift people out of poverty, as has a government advisory committee. Despite one-off increases in the base rate of payments in 2021 and 2023, income support for job-seekers and some other groups remains low and have left people vulnerable to post-pandemic inflationary pressures.
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