Mallee faces poverty hit after ‘brutal’ job payment cuts

Lucy Bain

THE Federal Government’s call to slash the JobSeeker and JobKeeper payments at the start of the new year is “brutal”, according to Mallee Family Care chief executive Teresa Jayet. On New Year’s Day, the coronavirus supplement to the JobSeeker payment was cut from $125 to $75, down from the $275 extra that welfare recipients were […]

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