Tasmanian Newstart recipients ask 'how am I supposed to live?'

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A new survey of Tasmanian Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients finds poverty has forced more than a third to steal food, prompting renewed calls an increase to welfare payments.

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A new report written by young people in Tasmania on Youth Allowance or Newstart has found more than a third of respondents have had to steal food just to eat.Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients were interviewed for the Anti-Poverty Week reportHuman Services Minister Roger Jaensch says increasing welfare payments is a matter for the CommonwealthOf the respondents, 36 per cent said they had stolen food because they were hungry.

CEO Danny Sutton said the report clearly showed Newstart and Youth Allowance payments needed to be increased. Representatives of the project presented the final report to Tasmania's Parliament as part of Anti-Poverty Week. "I can see from the evidence that has been brought forward to us today the stresses and the pressures that young people are under," he said."The Government in Canberra needs to be listening to the voices of young people in making any future decisions about those schemes," he said.

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Get a job like everyone else

By getting a fucking job

Give up drugs and get a job.😢😢😢😢😢

Get a job like everyone else

This dude spends $70 of taxpayers money on weed A FORTNIGHT and wonders why a) he’s strapped for cash and b) he can’t get a gig

$80 on power a fortnight for 1 person? Is he running a hydro setup?

they should give begging a go and they can start by asking BrianCHouston for advice

🤣 That picture is hilarious. 'Here is doofus' weekly budget, not including illegal drugs.'

find a fcking job

Maybe they could toy with the idea of working to live, how about that for a novel approach.

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