Just over two weeks before the federal budget, the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged the government to provide more help to those struggling the most.
Young people receiving government support could have been up to $4700 better off over the last six months if Labor had lifted payments as its Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee recommended last year analysis shows.
Last year, the then-interim committee said the government should increase the working age payments such as JobSeeker and Youth Allowance to 90 per cent of the age pension rate, and increase the amount of Commonwealth Rent Assistance. “Because Labor refused to listen to the advice of their own hand-picked economic inclusion advisory committee, people on Jobseeker have missed out on a 30 per cent increase in payments and students on Youth Allowance a whopping 60 per cent.”
“While we can’t fund every good idea and everything we would like to do, our record shows we have delivered responsible budgets as well as helping people doing it tough,” they said.
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