Submission to Senate Community Affairs Committee on legislation to enable $25 per week increase to JobSeeker payment
3 March 2021,
COTA Submissions
COTA acknowledges the Bill’s $25 per week increase to the JobSeeker and other working age payments as the first real term increase in 26 years, but $25 is not enough to prevent job seekers, including tens of thousands of older Australians, falling into poverty.