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74: Left Behind (Budget 2023 ft. Senator Janet Rice)

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The Budget Increase for JobSicker Youth Allowance

JobSicker Youth Allowance, Ozz Study, Add to Study and some other payments by $40 a fortnight. The higher rate for people on JobSicker which used to apply to people 60 and above is apparently designed to recognize that older people are more likely to be long-term unemployed. People between 50 and 59 will be getting $92 more per fortnight. What do you think happened? Because we had this sort of leak to Channel 7 news ahead of the budget. We found out that the job-seeker boost is across the board. So I think they were trying it out and seeing they had two big things in the income support space that they had hoped was going to be

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