ACOSS: Scrap tax cuts, lift JobSeeker by $185 a week instead

Thursday 30 July 2020

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has called on the Morrison Government to abandon further $16 billion of tax cuts in favour of permanently lifting JobSeeker by $185 a week:

ACOSS is also calling for the rate of the JobSeeker unemployment payments to be permanently raised by $185 per week.

Before the pandemic, the council had been advocating for the rate to be increased by $95 per week.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.