Published: September 14, 2018
Figures show 15% of Newstart recipients have been on the payment for more than five years
Australia is on average spending less than half of what similar countries spend on employment services, just as the number of Newstart recipients who have been on the payment for more than five years hits 15%, a new report says.
Amid continued debate about the rate of the Newstart payment, Faces of Unemployment, released on Friday by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) and Jobs Australia, finds the nation’s cohort of long-term unemployed has surged since the early 1990s.
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