Can’t keep track of all the attacks on Australia’s welfare state?
We have compiled a quick and easy to understand summary of how the unemployed, disabled and families will be effected, what will change, and when it will be introduced.
ATTACKS AGAINST THE UNEMPLOYED
Click here for list of all significant attacks against the Unemployed, both planned and current. For a summarised time-line of these recent attacks, please click here
Includes:
1. Under 30s kicked off Newstart Entitlement
2. Work for the Dole Expansion (1) + (2)
3. Increase Penalties for Job Seekers
4. Payments Frozen for 3 years
5. Under 25s forced off Newstart
7. Abolishment of Income Support Payment
ATTACKS AGAINST THE DISABLED
Click here for list of all significant attacks against the Disabled, both planned and current.
Includes:
1. Making the Disability Support Pension harder to get
2. Reassessing DSP recipients under 35
3. Forcing DSP recipients into work/compulsory activities
4. Reducing the DSP pension by indexing it to Consumer Price Index (CPI)
ATTACKS AGAINST FAMILIES
Click here for list of all significant attacks against families, both planned and current.
Includes:
1. Cuts to Family Tax Benefit (Part B)
2. All family tax benefits frozen for two years
Complete list of all attacks on the welfare state, as it will be put to the Senate