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AUS Budget 2018: Welfare changes to impact migrants.

Welfare Cut 2018
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison during a press conference as he hands down the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2017/18 in Canberra. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) Source: AAP

Migrants who arrive in Australia from July next year will have to wait three years before they can access certain welfare payments, extending the current two-year waiting period.


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By Peggy Giakoumelos, Madhura Seneviratne

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Migrants who arrive in Australia from July next year will have to wait three years before they can access certain welfare payments, extending the current two-year waiting period.



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