Income Support, Poverty and Debt

The Society calls for:

• poverty to be defined and monitored, with regularly published data
• child poverty to be halved by 2030
• a further increase to the base rate of working age payments to lift recipients out of poverty
• income support payments to be indexed biannually in line with wage growth or CPI
• an increase to the earnings threshold of income support recipients by $150 a fortnight (to $300)
• timely regulation of the Buy Now Pay Later Sector to protect vulnerable and disadvantaged people from predatory financial loans, products and credit card companies
• a broader, empathetic, and less prescriptive assessment process for the Disability Support Pension

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