A scathing August report from the Commonwealth Ombudsman聽has found that nearly 1000 JobSeeker recipients have had their payments unlawfully cancelled over a two-year period, in what welfare advocates have dubbed 鈥淩obodebt 2.0鈥. Josh Adams reports.
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The second-term Anthony Albanese government has no excuse not to raise welfare payments in a cost-of-living and housing crisis, argues Pip Hinman.听
Labor鈥檚 own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged it to raise JobSeeker and other welfare payments ahead of the federal budget. Isaac Nellist reports.听
Labor has been criticised for refusing to implement some critical recommendations聽which would聽help welfare recipients聽and make聽it harder to ever implement a Robodebt scheme again. 闯辞蝉丑听础诲补尘蝉 reports.