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Income Support, Poverty and Debt

Income Support, Poverty and Debt

Poverty Alleviation
Advocacy
Income Support
24/01/2024 12:00 PM

The Society calls for:

  • poverty to be defined and monitored, with regularly published data
  • child poverty to be halved by 2030
  • a further increase to the base rate of working age payments to lift recipients out of poverty
  • income support payments to be indexed biannually in line with wage growth or CPI
  • an increase to the earnings threshold of income support recipients by $150 a fortnight (to $300)
  • timely regulation of the Buy Now Pay Later Sector to protect vulnerable and disadvantaged people from predatory financial loans, products and credit card companies
  • a broader, empathetic, and less prescriptive assessment process for the Disability Support Pension

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