41% of Australians on Jobseeker are failing to collect the number of “points” needed to stay on benefits, suggesting there is as much wrong with the system as the people on it.
- Research Associate, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
Unrealistic criteria and poor communication are causing people who need it most to lose an important income support.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.
The impacts of the pandemic on jobs and incomes have been so widespread and severe that low-income households can afford very few properties despite rents falling in some parts of our capital cities.
From this week parents can once again be thrown off benefits.
A new analysis shows an economic downturn due to COVID-19 will dramatically increase rental stress for people with insecure or casual work.
Once rent is paid, having to live on only $14 a day doesn’t cover the costs of job seeking. The evidence of the need to increase Newstart and Rent Allowance is overwhelming.
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