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1. Snapshot paints depressing picture of impact of homelessness
(Daily News/Blog)

... than those who had never been homeless (three per cent).  Adults who had been homeless were twice as likely to report that their main source of personal income was a government pension or allowance ...

2. Meagre dole payment doesn't just hurt the unemployed: Toby Hall
(Daily News/Blog)

... economists to the small ‘l’ liberal left, there is furious agreement that unemployed Australians are barely scraping by. The inadequacy of the Newstart Allowance has a number of ramifications – for individual ...

3. How fair are unemployment benefits?
(Daily News/Blog)

... unemployment benefit, or Newstart Allowance, is too low. They say it's penalising the jobless, making it harder for people to get work and condemning the long-term unemployed to poverty. This came on ...

4. How fair are unemployment benefits?
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... unemployment benefit, or Newstart Allowance, is too low. They say it's penalising the jobless, making it harder for people to get work and condemning the long-term unemployed to poverty. This came on ...

5. Inequality is growing in Australia: ACOSS
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... to get paid work - have not had commensurate increases in their social security payment - the Newstart Allowance. "Although there have been some efforts by the Australian Government to alleviate these ...