The treasurer’s determination to draw a thick black line from promised additional payments on childcare to benefit cuts is meeting resistance from single parents Very occasionally,the real world forces its way into the deliberations of federal policymakers, and when it does it’s a mildly shocking thing, or like an open window bringing breeze and car horns and birdsong into a muzak-filled air-conditioned shopping mall.
This week it arrived in the form of Terese Edwards,from the National Council for Single Mothers and their Children, who was giving evidence to a Senate inquiry approximately a government scheme to cut $4.8bn from family payments – which adds up to cuts in payments to a single parent with two children between 13 and 18 of approximately $3000 a year, and including axing a twice-a-year top-up payment.
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Source: theguardian.com