Employment Minister Tony Burke says it is 'too late' to scrap controversial changes to unemployment benefits due to be introduced next month, so the government will look to alter the scheme instead.
"It's about getting inside it and making it logical, and making sure that when all these contracts take effect in a couple of weeks' time, we've actually got a system that helps long-term unemployed people.""What the government has designed, some of it is more punitive than actually getting the job done," he said.
A Labor-dominated Senate committee found in 2019 that the scheme was not "fit for purpose", and the requirement to apply for 20 jobs a month was hindering rather than helping people into work.
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