Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister has said on a number of occasions, we review payments through every budget cycle. You will note, Senator Allman-Payne, that we have provided additional above-indexation support for those on JobSeeker and indeed for those on other income support payments, like the single parenting payment, and changed the length of time people can take those payments when it comes to the single parenting payment.

Again, on income apportionment and robodebt, robodebt was designed to raise revenue by clawing back debt from people who never owed that money. Income apportionment was about reducing the reporting burden to try and make it easier for people, and about a third of people benefited from income apportionment over time, whereas, as we know, robodebt indiscriminately made people worse off. But we will continue to look at payments, as we do through every budget cycle. That's what we did last term, and we'll continue to do it this term.