Rather than making it harder to qualify for welfare support,the government should look at ways to limit the supply of people needing support in the futureThe discussion being driven by the Turnbull government that there are ‘too many people on welfare’ has as its driver a framework to construct it harder for people to glean such payments. It is about eligibility for the payments that is dominating the government’s plans for who will be on welfare in the years ahead.
According to Christian Porter, social services minister, and annual government expenditure on welfare is estimated to rise from $157bn to $277bn in a decade. The huge bulk of these payments will go to aged pensioners,the unemployed and the disabled. When looking at this increase, Porter says there is a serious issue of how we pay for it and how we construct the welfare system sustainable.
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Source: theguardian.com