@7newsq: The Federal Government is being warned support payments for many of those on welfare have become so inadequate, they're a disgrace. New data suggests up to three quarters of those relying on job seeker payments are at risk of living in poverty.

Tyneeka💗 :

my abstudy went up by $3 but my rent went up by almost $20. meaning I'll only have about $100 after rent. I am stressed

Lil Vinnie 🇵🇸🍉 :

God forbid they pull people on welfare out of poverty so we can afford to live and feed money back into the economy, they can see these comments, they can see the people struggling and they laugh in our faces

Neeki :

rent roughly $700 a week btw. then you have electricity, water, food, phone, internet, fuel. plus any other bills that come up, dentist, doctors, needing new work clothes, shoes. most of us are in debt.

⦻River⦻ :

I live in a house with 4 other people, I get 800 a fortnight. Roommate 1 gets the same, roommate 2 gets $100 a fortnight, roommate 3 doesn’t pay anything cause he’s roommate 4s bf. Roommate 4 gets $500 one week and $1000 the next. So In total we have $4,100 a fortnight, 2,050 a week. We can’t afford anything except rent.

• Sam • 🧿🌙 🇦🇺 • ᛑᛗᛛ :

If I get marked down meat, we will eat good for a few days. If I don’t, rice and toast is the staple for hubby and I.

Smilingwhilsteatingsalad :

Simple tax the rich but we just pretend to not know the answer.

Jaye :

I’m on dsp and I’ll be homeless in two weeks cause I can’t afford anything . I can’t rent because realestates will take the person who works in the mines over someone in a wheelchair . I can’t afford most foods , medications or transport .

kaiya :3 :

i earn $600~/per fortnight on DSP. my partner earns $900~/per week working full time. in total, we have $1200 per week. with the current cost of living, this is not enough for someone to live.

🐸🇦🇺 Pepeganda TTV :

"are at risk of poverty" All payments are below the poverty line. period.

Dianne Russell :

People are getting really nasty too. You have strangers go out of their way to make a really nasty comment and all I am doing is going for an afternoon stroll. There is something evil in people. No one cares about anyone anymore. I get verbally attacked by complete strangers for no reason other than it makes them feel good. People are getting really violent and evil.

purdy65 :

Worst part of this is I can barely my bills. I am at the stage where I need to sell my home.

Ihateeveryonehere :

Coles motto is now "Up up, the prices are up ☝️."

Qldr888 :

single Parenting payment is not even enough to pay rent or get food and if you work too you get anything but at least you can pay rent by working

Sunny :

And when we dare to complain- the rich punch down and call us lazy dole bludgers. Like I’m not a single mum working full time

Steve :

yeah, its disgusting, governments create this mess, and the people cop the rough end of the pineapple!

neoreformedbuddhist :

Meanwhile our system depends on a certain amount of people to be unemployed at any given time. Absolutely disgraceful

daz :

“At risk of living in poverty” I can’t find a rental that is cheap enough to be able to pay rent and feed myself. I have a job but no hours, I live in a shed with no insulation and no bathroom. I have been scraping by trying to find better work but there’s just not enough work. On top of everything my payments got paused for attending an interview I found out about last minute.

Rose | Business Mum :

So many people are under extreme stress. Something needs to change soon.

🐞 :

I’m on $33.70 an hour perm part time retail job. I get 20-37 hours a week. I’m on a sharehouse & my share of rent is $940 a month. Plus bills. It’s ridiculous

Brisman44 🇦🇺🦘 :

Blue_rosa_art :

im too sick for full time, but not sick enough for DSP, so while I do have a casual job that I enjoy working at, everytime i get paid by it my job seeker is cut down so much that I cant pay my bills and the pay from my casual job isn't enough, and i'm stuck like this month needing to find another $200 from somewhere, and god knows if im gonna be able to get my medications I need, and the increasingly spreading red rash on my face? fat chance I'll find the money to visit a dermatologist cause they cost $400 god damn dollars just for a consultation. so i just gotta live with it as it eats away at my will to show my face in public. People just want to live, and no one can do that with current job seeker.

Vaas :

i'm on disability and get around $1200 a fortnight, but practically most of that goes to rent and bills ($700 rent alone), then $100 for my medicines, $100 for food, $50 - $100 for gas/ubers depending on how many hospital/doctor appointments i have to go to, internet bill, electricity, water, etc. $1200 initially sounds like a lot, but it isn't very much after having to pay for things, especially if you're disabled/sick and need to pay for medicine/treatments and transport to frequent medical appointments

Melissa Anderson :

My sons 23 on jobseeker comes to my place 6 nights a fortnight for dinner four days for coffee and breakfast plus also get three days worth of food of me I’m on carers payment for a kid plus I get a couple hundred bucks a fortnight from casual work I struggle as it is but I have to get there and feed my kid that moved out five years ago it’s terrible shouldn’t be happening in Australia but with everything gone up over 100% in five years is the problem not only fuel rent water electricity phone and internet food school cost it’s terrible I’m planing on starting to live of rice a nob of Devon and a bag of cheap mix veg a week to feed the three of us four nights and four for three nights because of the prices now days we need payments to go up 50-100% just to make ends meat

Mike6969691 :

Im working 2 jobs 7 days a week. Its tough but im sacrificing so much for a better tomorrow and 1 job virtually takes care of my mortgage and the other allows me to save

Aiden :

thanks albo