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[Over The Post]

Ignore the "subscribe" stuff and click "continue reading".

 

[NSWCROW]

Ignore the "subscribe" stuff and click "continue reading".

Yep was just gonna say that, my bad

 

[Power Raid]

Unfortunately I have seen a particular routine play out with several people:

• Give birth to a child
• Separate from the child's father
• Get on Parenting Payment/Sole Parent Pension
• Claim child support from the father
• Before Parenting Payment ends on the child's 8th birthday, have a baby by another man
• Separate from him too
• Repeat until you're no longer of child-bearing age
• Even when Parenting Payment ends, Centrelink only requires you to look for part-time work until your youngest child turns 16
• By that time you're only about 12 years away from age pension age

I'm not saying women routinely start relationships and give birth with a view to getting on single parent welfare. People partner and separate for a variety of reasons. But I have seen the above several times.

I have a friend from my teens that has done this and she’s targeted well paid guys at perth glory, a business owner and afl players

4th kid over twenty odd years

 

[NSWCROW]

I have a friend from my teens that has done this and she’s targeted well paid guys at perth glory, a business owner and afl players

4th kid over twenty odd years

Half her ****en luck !! lol

 

[NSWCROW]

Good luck to Murray but unless he has more $ than the govt, he's ****ed.


As always, the rub lies in the word " Mutual "



Another tony abbott legacy

 

[Taylor]

I have a friend from my teens that has done this and she’s targeted well paid guys at perth glory, a business owner and afl players

4th kid over twenty odd years

Tony Sage does like to surround himself with women of a certain... calibre.

 

[Freomaniac]

Worth a read. Language in a couple of paragraphs devolves into propaganda, but that's only a small part of the whole.

Employment Services Case Study: Albanese Government set to cancel 54 year-old disabled man’s payment after failing to investigate bullying by job agency

AUWU launches Parliamentary Submission builder to help participants capture these nightmare experiences with Employment Services so that the government cannot avoid addressing this systemic abuse

auwu.substack.com

Absolute scum bags those job agencies are.

But I am not surprised. I went through a similar situation

 

[NSWCROW]

Rate rise next monday

$24.70 for jobseeker

 

[Over The Post]

woot

cue the wailing and gnashing over how much it's going to cost and how it will jeopardise the economy

don't mention the subs

 

[Taylor]

Hardly seems enough

 

[Gralin]

Rate rise next monday

$24.70 for jobseeker

The biannual indexation for inflation that Labor keep trying to sell as them doing something?

 

[NSWCROW]

The biannual indexation for inflation that Labor keep trying to sell as them doing something?

Go google it and let us know

 

[Taylor]

Looks like it. I haven't seen the ALP patting themselves on the back over it though.

 

[Gralin]

Go google it and let us know

So yes

 

[NSWCROW]

So yes

so you didn't google

 

[Gralin]

so you didn't google

its an indexation increase, its not a rate rise, its meant to keep pace with inflation but we know it doesn't

its purpose it to stop the value of the payment from going backwards, its automatic and it happens twice a year

Labor tried to claim the last two indexations as a rate rise they'd done

libs liked to claim it when they were in power too



this is how Risworth is spruiking an extra $1.77 a day which is a 3.5% increase which if you've been paying attention isn't keeping up with the increases in the costs of food, utilities and housing

 

[NSWCROW]

its an indexation increase, its not a rate rise, its meant to keep pace with inflation but we know it doesn't

its purpose it to stop the value of the payment from going backwards, its automatic and it happens twice a year

Labor tried to claim the last two indexations as a rate rise they'd done

libs liked to claim it when they were in power too

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this is how Risworth is spruiking an extra $1.77 a day which is a 3.5% increase which if you've been paying attention isn't keeping up with the increases in the costs of food, utilities and housing

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................... who gives a ****


You're carrying on like i marched in here yelling " YAY LAYBAH, **** THE GRINZ "

 

[Freomaniac]

Rate rise next monday

$24.70 for jobseeker

Massive for someone like me.

Beats what the Liberals handed out...

a $4 or $5 payrise every 6 months before 2022. lol

 

[Gralin]

Massive for someone like me.

Beats what the Liberals handed out...

a $4 or $5 payrise every 6 months before 2022. lol

you get that its indexed to inflation yeah

like if the libs were in power it would be exact same amount now, its the same legislation that was in place under them

its just that inflation is much higher now than it was before 2022

 

[Taylor]

This isn't political but if we are being clinical the jobseeker payment temporarily had it's largest (and probably largest it ever will) increase of 100% during covid.

Inflation through the roof, buying power of dollars dropping by almost 10% per year. 3.5% increase.

There needs to be a review of how CPI is calculated because at the moment if your basket of goods has something that has become too expensive it is replaced by something else - the same basket of goods measured in 1990 is vastly different to now. Not to mention that if you buy a 40 inch TV for $500 and the follow year a 60 inch TV is on offer for $700 they count that as being a 7% reduction in the cost of TVs.

 

[GreyCrow]

This isn't political but if we are being clinical the jobseeker payment temporarily had it's largest (and probably largest it ever will) increase of 100% during covid.

Rubbish

Job seeker was just over $500pf in early 2019 it is now just over $700pf

That's not 100%

 

[Taylor]

Rubbish

Job seeker was just over $500pf in early 2019 it is now just over $700pf

That's not 100%

Was the welfare payments temporarily doubled during covid as I said?

Fact check f'n true.

Unemployed can finally afford 'three square meals a day' as extra JobSeeker payment takes effect

Jobless Australians welcome a coronavirus-led boost to payments, but despair that it has taken a pandemic to increase their income to a level that lets them eat three times a day.

www.abc.net.au

 

[GreyCrow]

Was the welfare payments temporarily doubled during covid as I said?

Fact check f'n true.

Unemployed can finally afford 'three square meals a day' as extra JobSeeker payment takes effect

Jobless Australians welcome a coronavirus-led boost to payments, but despair that it has taken a pandemic to increase their income to a level that lets them eat three times a day.

www.abc.net.au

Then you need to clarify your original post

 

[Taylor]

Then you need to clarify your original post

You're right, I should have said the jobseeker payment temporarily had it's largest (and probably largest it ever will) increase of 100% during covid.

 

[Over The Post]

It wasn't an increase. The rate stayed the same. It was an additional covid supplement - a supplement that was wound back and then abolished. Its sole purpose (like Jobseeker) was to insulate the newly unemployed from the horror of having to survive on the way-below-poverty-level dole. Just like the streamlined qualifying insulated them from the horror of normal Centrelink. By having a million new unemployed people going "well this isn't too bad" it diminished any voter backlash.