People suffering mental health concerns on Newstart are at risk of having their conditions worsen by the restrictive nature of the payments, mental health advocates have warned.
"At best the Newstart payment is fundamentally inadequate to sustain reasonable and necessary cost of living for people with mental illness.” Mr Lovelock told the inquiry the number of people on Newstart with mental health problems had increased from 30 per cent in the early 2000s to “around 50 per cent” of those on the payment.
Its researcher David Richardson arguing the Newstart payment should no longer be considered a ‘temporary’ income support measure.“The average duration on Newstart is now 159 weeks, now they’re not all going to leave tomorrow,” he told the inquiry.
Centrelink make the vulnerable walk on glass and demonise the unemployed. Besides unemployment benefits are the second smallest segment of the welfare budget.
Starting from the big picture Australia does not have ‘full employment’ therefore a percentage of the population will never have work so those on Newstart should not be demonised for being like a rat on the Centrelink wheel.
Yep .. that’s not news to us folks on Newstart with serious mental health issues
So many older women on Newstart. We’re the real unseen Australians. Increasing Newstart would stimulate the economy, unlike giving billions in franking credits, but Newstart recipients don’t give massive donations to pollies, so here we are.
Talk to a wall, a least it might crack...eventually.
This. The government has no idea how hard it actually is to live off, actually, quite a few that comment here won’t either.
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