The government is increasing assistance to single parents, by lifting the cut-off age for the single parenting payment in a decision Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said would ease pressure on struggling households.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said 14 is the right age, when a child needs less support at home,.“It’s an investment in these families. I know firsthand what it’s like to go up with a single mum doing it tough, and we want to make sure that the children of single-parent families had the best opportunities in life, to go on and ... aspire to a good life with good jobs with security.”
“Eight was far too low. An eight-year-old needs mum or dad or their carer to cook them dinner, to look after them, a 14-year-old starts to, in today’s world, starts to move into that change into adulthood. And we think this is absolutely the right balance as well,” Albanese said.The announcement comes a day before Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down his second budget.
Earlier on Monday, opposition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume said the Coalition would wait and see what the details of the federal government’s $14.6 billion cost of living support package was before agreeing to support it. Professor Anne Summers, a former Labor advisor who authored a recent report on violence and poverty and had, welcomed Albanese’s announcement on expanding the eligibility for single parenting payments.
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Single parent payment support extendedPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the cut-off age for the youngest child of a single parent as the single parenting payment will be raised from 8 to 14 years old. “What that will do is to make sure that women, in particular, but also fathers in situations of raising children by themselves, can have that sense of security,” Mr Albanese said during a media conference on Monday. “It will cost to the budget some $1.9 billion through to 2026-2027, but what the research has shown is that this is an investment - It's an investment in these families.”
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