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Alison Pennington, a senior economist at the Centre for Future Work, pointed to the policy inconsistencies where a student who works part-time and receives Youth Allowance did not qualify for the payment but a wealthy student who lives at home and did not get Youth Allowance (due to their parents’ income) could receive it.
More than 1.2 million students, pensioners, disabled people and their carers and the unemployed went without support for four weeks.
But, under pressure from welfare groups, unions, the Greens and even the NSW Liberal Treasurer, the federal government extended the Disaster Payment to workers on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance.
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Boston Consulting Groupâs final report, also obtained under freedom of information, found the reforms had increased the cost of the program by 48% in two years, partly due to a 46% increase the number of participants.
Yet the number of employment outcomes â that is people who found work â had only increased by 8%.
This meant the likelihood of a Des participant finding work had declined by âaround 12-14% since the July 2018 reformsâ, despite the labour market remaining flat.
The report calculated that the cost of getting one person into six monthsâ of work under the program had increased from $27,800 to $38,400 in two years after the reforms.