This is why mutual obligations need to be abolished, payments raised above the Henderson poverty line, and JSP networks dismantled. Their operators should be barred from running a company ever again. I guarantee they'll be fine, there's plenty of jobs to be had scrubbing toilets.

Strap yourselves in and I'll tell you the tale of how cleaning public toilets is an industry built on welfare fraud and rorting government services! This happened to me, once, too. The moment I got flagged as having barriers to work, I was offered a job scrubbing toilets. (A 🧵)

AUWU I once was employed by a bus. that exclusively hired jobseekers only to let them go every 6 months for this cash boost, hire another, and repeat the process. They would be paid min wage and do minimal work where they wouldn't get in the way. ND ppl were the easiest to exploit.

This is clear rorting of the welfare system — but when it's done by businesses, the government doesn't care. In fact, they encourage it!

Rising rents and inadequate income support are driving increased homelessness. In #Budget2024 Government needs to #RaisetheRate theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/…

Amanda Rishworth MP You want folk below the poverty line to… budget their way above it..?

Gross and disturbing; I thought our political class was more intelligent than that, but more fool me.

#Resign
#RaiseTheRate

So, instead of #RaiseTheRate , or anything that anyone forced to survive below the poverty line has repeatedly begged for in Australia, Amanda is pleased to announce that OTHER COMPANIES will be funding a financial counselling program for poor people.

700 days.

Anthony Albanese has been in the top job for SEVEN HUNDRED DAYS. He promised not to leave anyone behind.

People on Centrelink are clearly nobody, because he's left us behind.

RAISE THE FUCKING RATE.

#RaiseTheRate #BTPM #NobodyDeservesPoverty

Amanda Rishworth MP This is offensive. I'm not an idiot, and no amount of counselling will create the extra money each week that would make my life a life, not merely an existence.
#RaiseTheRate . Actually, lifting payments *even just to the poverty line* would help many more than this ever will.

Nailed it 👇 #auspol #raisetherate

JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (Other) recipients as at March 2024: 892,220. Up from 876,020 in February.
Total is now above the Aug 2023 total, prior to a large group of single parents on JobSeeker moving to Parenting Payment Single in Sep. 23.

'Our policy choices actively conspire to push young people towards homelessness'

Yet another article about how raising the rate of Youth Allowance (and all welfare payments) is a proven anti-homelessness measure

canberratimes.com.au/story/8597346/…

Financial counsellors can't help if you simply do not have enough money.

#RaiseTheRate #BTPM
#NobodyDeservesPoverty

#Centrelink have cancelled #childcare subsidy claiming child unvaccinated. GP says info was sent through. Nothing updated on #Medicare record. Repeatedly tried ph Centrelink all get is recorded message saying high vol of calls, then hangs up #auspol abc730 Bill Shorten 😡 WTF

Services Australia Bill Shorten Hi Services Australia Team
Why is aged pension application - submitted on 4 January 2024 - still not being paid? I was advised completion date 28 March. Still no advice. How much longer must I live on my savings? It's been FIFTEEN WEEKS.

Services Australia I was on the phone FOR TWO HOURS because you haven't paid me, I was transferred around, answered TWELVE ID questions, was put on hold for a THIRD time and then while I was waiting on hold, I was hung up on. Now I've called back AND IM TOLD THAT THE WAIT IS 70MINS

Services Australia
I am begging you. Raise the dollar amount students can earn before payments get cut. We’re in a cost of living crisis and I can’t afford anything as it is. Sincerely someone who has $16 to live on for the next 11 days…