Cutting JobSeeker payments the 'last thing' we should be doing, ACOSS says

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Noha Ayed had to find a cheaper place to rent when JobSeeker payments were cut in September, and she's facing yet another cut. But ACOSS, the social services advocate, says cutting welfare is the last thing Australia should be doing while big tax cuts are still on the agenda.

The Australian Council of Social Service says Australia faces a crucial moment of choice — between delivering "eyewatering" tax cuts to the nation's top earners and maintaining financial support for those struggling during the pandemic.

"That's the disaster that we potentially face if we don't deliver a different set of policies going into 2021." Ms Ayed worked as a rideshare driver, but couldn't make it fit in with her studies to become an advanced interpreter and caring for her children. The extra benefit he received during the pandemic enabled him to register his car, and find part-time work disinfecting school classrooms."I think the economics would show that's not worthwhile, but I don't want people calling me a dole bludger.

 

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