By Ben Wilson A week ago, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) launched a campaign to raise the Youth Allowance and called for an increase in Newstart. It’s called Raise the Rate.
The following is by Christopher Knaus and published by the Guardian Australia 13 March 2018 An 11-year-old girl in foster care in Tennant Creek, who is blind, has epilepsy and cognitive impairment, was wrongly denied national disability insurance […]
From Jane Norman (ABC News) Around 60 per cent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) are getting rejected, because of a crackdown that started under the Gillard government.
From Queensland Rhianna Johnson lives in Bundaberg in Queensland and she is one in the long list of sick people denied a disability pension by Centrelink. They say she is not sick enough.
By Christopher Knaus (The Guardian 14 Feb 2018) Only about $84m in Centrelink debts have been recovered in 14 months, far below the $350m identified by the automated system.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has warned that increasing the punishment of the unemployed, will result in worsening poverty and joblessness.
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