The program provides a safety net, including payments of less than $35 a day and casework support, for those people awaiting news on their immigration status.
Advocates for asylum seekers are lobbying the Federal Government on behalf of more than 13,000 people they say are at risk of losing government support.
Ten groups, including the Refugee Council of Australia, the Salvation Army, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and the Brotherhood of Saint Laurence, say they are getting increasing calls for help because of tightened eligibility requirements around a government program.
The program is the so-called Status Resolution Support Service, which involves payments of less than $35 a day and casework support for people awaiting news on their immigration status.
The groups claim the Government has indicated the number of asylum seekers receiving the benefits could be reduced to as few as 5,000, mostly in metropolitan Australia.
They are calling on the Government to stop tightening the rules.
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