Senate debates Bills
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017; In Committee
Louise Pratt WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment and Water (Senate)
6:48 pm
Over time, we've seen increases to pensions, but we haven't seen increases to youth allowance or to Newstart, which is now the jobseeker allowance. We've seen an increase of just 50 cents announced this week. Will there be no ongoing relativity of the bereavement allowance to the age pension?
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