The Anglican Church-associated charitable organisation surveyed 45,115 rental properties across Australia. Only three – all sharehouses – were affordable on JobSeeker, 31 on the Disability Support Pension, 89 on the Age Pension and 289 on minimum wage. Each of these numbers accounted for less than one percent of surveyed properties.
Browsing: Youth Allowance
The broken Youth Allowance system does not only affect the students who need to access these payments but it touches at the very nature of Australian society.
While the increase to YouthAllowance and Austudy will be of significance for the payments’ recipients, young people should not lose sight of the government’s distorted approach to welfare increases across the board.
The University urged the Albanese government to “fix the worst elements of the Job-ready Graduates Package,” in its submission but stopped short of recommending its repeal.
The report found that hundreds of thousands of 18 to 21 year-olds are being left in poverty by the inaccessibility and inadequacy of government payments.
Nell O’Grady surveys the individuals still receiving false debt letters from the government organisation.
EJ Sokias opines on the changes to Centrelink’s student schemes
