Published: October 29, 2020
Employment minister, Michaelia Cash, challenged over mutual obligations regime that has resulted in 74,000 payment suspensions
Job agencies have suspended welfare payments 74,000 times since mutual obligations returned last month, with 9,100 people experiencing homelessness among those temporarily cut off from income support.
Department of Employment officials on Thursday night revealed plans to give jobseekers a new “48-hour window” before their payments were put on hold, as they conceded the latest figures under the current system were “large”.
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