Or, another way to put this: the government has been hiding the true number of unlawful mutual obligation cancellations for years
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"The new system still rests on the same old assumption: that unemployment is a personal failing requiring behavioural correction. The problem, we are told, is still the people."
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The Department has admitted to many thousands of unlawful cancellations. The last Ombudsman report also indicated large numbers of incorrect payment suspensions
The government just said on the radio that these victims of UNLAWFUL punishments should join their "lived experience panel". I stg
Senate estimates hearing told issues caused by a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations scheme
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This Government and this Department both need a very serious reality check.
DEWR does not have ANYTHING like the administrative capacity to manage 'mutual obligations', and $300m will not change this.
Currently, the complaints service run by DEWR is in meltdown and can have a wait time of >4hrs.
🗞️ Today SBS is doing (yet another) story about how unliveable the JobSeeker payment is.
If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne and are interested in being interviewed for tonight’s news, send us an email via [email protected]
That is an outright lie. It’s actually their policy to harass anyone who has got a job so they can claim an outcome - and if staff won’t do it they get fired.
I know this from close experience.
4000 submissions from disabled people, their family, kin and community to say don't do this on NDIS cuts. our community is bloody amazing
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