The measure was sold as one that would boost single parents’ incomes. Newly-available data shows that on balance it cut them. Domestic violence might have played a part.
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ParentsNext requires the parents of very young children to perform monitored activities in return for Centrelink payments. Eve Vincent talks to single mothers about ‘the indignity of investigation’.
Other parents have got back the hours they lost. Not single parents. Many were forced to leave jobs to care for children.
From this week parents can once again be thrown off benefits.
ParentsNext compels mothers into makework rather than work and devalues the work they do.
Fixing Newstart isn’t enough. We need a comprehensive inquiry into our complex and bewildering social security system, especially as it applies to single parents.
Social services minister Kevin Andrews has targeted the Disability Support Pension and Newstart, the main payment for the unemployed, for reform, branding the current level of welfare as unsustainable…
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