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ACOSS letter to the Prime Minister and National Cabinet (12 Jan 2022)
ACOSS letter to the Prime Minister and National Cabinet proposing urgent steps the Government must take to ensure people most at risk from the impacts of COVID-19 are protected and the essential services that support them have the resources they need.
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COVID-19: Rental housing and homelessness impacts in Australia by the Poverty and Inequality Partnership between ACOSS and UNSW Sydney (2021)
This report, the second of two planned reports from this particular research project, looks at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic – still ongoing at the time of writing – on housing and homelessness in Australia during 2020 and 2021.
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COVID Income Support: Analysis of Income Support in the COVID Lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 by the Poverty and Inequality Partnership between ACOSS and UNSW Sydney (Sep 2021)
The last 18 months of the COVID Pandemic have brought dramatic changes in aspects of everyone’s lives. However, it is clear that some people have been much harder hit than others. If we are to understand what people need to stay safe and to recover over time, we need to understand what has happened to them, and who has been affected worst and where they live.
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Locked out in lockdown: September Update - ACOSS Briefing (17 Sep 2021)
People with the least continue to be locked out of financial support
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Next steps for income support - ACOSS Briefing (July 2020)
We urge the government to ensure income support payments for working-age people do not return to below-poverty levels again. We also urge the government to retain important improvements in the system that will help people access income support quickly when they need it.
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Raise the Rate for Good FAQ (Feb 2021)
Frequently asked questions about income support payments, the campaign and why we need to raise the rate for good.
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Raise the Rate for Good Factsheet (Apr 2021)
As we grapple with the ongoing health and economic crises, we must ensure everyone is supported to cover the basics. More people than ever will be struggling to find paid work. We cannot turn back to the brutality of people struggling to survive on $40 a day.
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Survey of more than 600 people receiving the new rate of JobSeeker or related income support payments (Aug 2020)
In August 2020, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) surveyed more than 600 people receiving JobSeeker or related income support payments to shed light on how the higher rates of payment helped people cover living costs. The survey also sought people’s views on the planned reduction and removal of this payment in coming months.
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Survey Of 955 People Receiving The New Rate Of JobSeeker And Other Allowances (May 2020)
The survey found that people were reporting dramatically reduced levels of financial and personal distress since the introduction of the new JobSeeker rate, with significant declines in the number of people skipping meals, as well as people reporting they could not afford fresh fruit and vegetables, medicines, bills and rent, and other essential expenses.
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Starved Of Opportunity: Young People's Experience Of Youth Allowance And Newstart (Nov 2019)
Young people’s experience of Youth Allowance and Newstart
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Report: The impact of raising the rates of Newstart and other allowances (2018)
Summary document of the analysis of the impact of raising the rate of benefits
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Report: The impact of raising benefit rates (Sep 2018)
An outline of the impact of raising the rate of benefits
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Survey Of People On Newstart and Youth Allowance (2019)
“What life was like”: Trying to get by on Newstart
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