Unemployment support will be slashed by $300 this week. This won't help people find work
- Written by Bruce Bradbury, Associate Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Stefan Postles/AAPThis week, support to unemployed Australians will be dramatically reduced.
In April, the new Coronavirus Supplement roughly doubled the level of benefits for unemployed people on the JobSeeker payment and a range of other working-age payments.
The supplement will drop from $550 to $250 a fortnight from Friday. This is before it is...
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