Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Federal budget should have raised welfare payments amid cost-of-living crisis, recipients say

Advocates express deep unease about lack of action for people on income support and repeat calls to lift jobseeker rate to $73 a day

After months spent trying to stretch jobseeker payments amid a cost-of-living crisis, Paulene Hutton hoped for some relief in the budget. But there was none.

Instead she said she was coming to terms with the government’s estimate of a 50% increase in electricity prices by 2023-24 – an amount that would raise her power bill from an average of $350 a quarter to $525.

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