Calls to increase the Jobseeker payment as Australia grapples with cost of living crisis

The latest report by not-for-profit charity Anglicare Australia has found increasing the unemployment payment to $88 a day would help lift more than two million Australians out of poverty.

There are calls to increase Jobseeker payments to lift millions of Australians above the poverty line. Source: AAP

Key Points

• Not-for-profit organisation Anglicare Australia is calling on the government ahead of the May budget to lift payments to $88 a day.
• The report says the increased payment would lift almost 2.3 million Australians out of poverty, including 840,000 children.
• It would cost the government just under $200 billion ((198 billion)) over 10 years to raise the rate of the Jobseeker, parent and carer payments, according to Anglicare's report.

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