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AYAC supports calls for increase in Newstart and Youth Allowance
Young people on Youth Allowance also suffer from unfair indexation because it is only indexed once per year compared with twice a year for pension payments.
Action needs to be taken to prevent disadvantaged Australians falling further below the poverty line.
ACOSS Media release More than 600,000 unemployed Australians risk falling further into poverty.
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.
