As we know, one of the biggest failures of the 2020 Federal Budget is that it failed to permanently lift JobSeeker from its normal poverty rate of $40 a day.
Unemployed Australians were also forced to contend with tougher mutual obligation rules. Despite there being up to 13 job seekers per job, the unemployed were required to look for two jobs a week from 28 September (Victorians excluded) and would be punished for not engaging with employment providers.
Now it has been revealed that 74,434 welfare payments were suspended in the month since Centrelink’s mutual obligations regime returned:
