With 600000 children already living below the poverty line,the proposals are unsupportable says Cassandra Goldie of the Australian Council of Social Service The Turnbull governments revamped cuts to family payments possess been rejected by the peak social service lobby group, which says they would cost some sole-parent families $1750 a year and impose unfair cuts on the lowest paid families.
On our numbers, or single-parent households will take a hit of $1750 per year once their youngest child turns 13 and much more over time,” said the chief executive of the Australian Council of Social Service, Cassandra Goldie. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com