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Jan 5, 2011
AYAC supports calls for an increase to Youth and Newstart Allowance
Australia’s unemployment payment was ranked the relative lowest of 30 OECD nations.
“IF YOUR income was cut to $234 a week – the unemployment payment – what would you choose to go without?”
Read the article in Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Life on $234 a week: No fresh food, holidays or visits to the doctor’.
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Advocates for young and vulnerable Australians are optimistic after the federal government announced an increase of $4 a week to people on Newstart and Youth Allowance.
Executive Director of the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, Andrew Cummings is campaigning for an increase for people on the lowest benefit schemes.
He said he was pleased that this year’s federal budget recognised that Newstart and Youth Allowance provide too little to live on.
May 18, 2012
