Published: December 18, 2018
Exclusive: Federal government urged to remove penalties from program for single mothers and other parents
The government has been urged to immediately overhaul its controversial pre-employment scheme, Parents Next by the providers contracted to administer the program. The services have revealed how parents are being referred to charities because their welfare payments have been wrongly suspended.
The cases – which have prompted not-for-profit job service providers to ask the minister to intervene – include a woman who had her payments suspended because she was admitted to hospital while 33 weeks pregnant and could not report to Centrelink.
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