A single person out of work and living in a shared house has an average of just $127 left each week for bills or incidental expenses after covering rent, transport and food, the report finds, while a single-parent household on the Parenting Payment has just $24 remaining each week.
Covering the cost of weekly essentials is leaving Australians on JobSeeker and other welfare payments with little left over to pay bills or other incidental expenses.
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