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Welfare payment cuts could tip marginal Coalition seats at next election, advocates warn

Welfare campaigners have warned impending cuts to the incomes of millions of social security recipients could tip marginal Coalition seats at the next election, as they launch a last ditch lobbying effort for a bigger boost to jobseeker payments. With parliament resuming in Canberra on Monday, the government hopes to pass a $50-a-fortnight increase to the base rate of jobseeker, student and parenting payments, despite widespread criticism of the.

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“This is going to have a devastating impact on people across Australia,” she said. The committee chair, Liberal senator Wendy Askew, said the $50-a-fortnight boost was the “largest increase to working-age support payments in more than 35 years”. “The committee notes that the permanent increase represents a cost of an additional $9bn to the social security and welfare budget across forward estimates, accounting for around a third of all government spending,” she said. Askew said the committee believed the “taxpayer-funded increase” of $50 a fortnight “balances the need to ensure payments encourage and enable workforce participation with the need for the welfare system to be fiscally sustainable for future generations”.

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Their situation would only improve when they became old enough to receive the age pension, they said. One welfare recipient, an executive who lost their job during Covid, said they were forced to deplete their savings before they could start receiving jobseeker payments in December. The person has deferred their mortgage, was now choosing between groceries and medication to treat a mental health issue, and had cancelled their health and home and contents insurance. They also claimed they were forced to have their cat put down because they couldn’t afford a required treatment. Several jobseekers told how the government’s decision to initially increase the jobseeker payment by $550 a fortnight last year had briefly changed their lives.

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