Eleven years after Julia Gillard wound the cut-off age for the youngest child for the single parent payment from 16 to eight, the government is planning to raise it.
a fortnight. On top of the payment, a parent of two children can earn up to $227.20 before their payment starts to be reduced.Terese Edwards, chief executive of the National Council of Single Mothers, has sent a raft of emails to the government begging them to reinstate the cut-off to 16, not 12.
The decision to cut back access to the payments has haunted Labor, and in 2013, then-leadership hopeful Anthony Albanese conceded that “sole parent payments is an area where we made a mistake”. Newly confirmed as prime minister last year, he backed the principle of “no one left behind”.“This is one of the most difficult transition phases in a child’s life,” Daniel said.
“It would be a shame if the government were not able to reach the full reinstatement as we know that children under 14 are in a major transition going into high school,” she said. “While this measure should be implemented, it would, at best, only help about 85,000 single parents of the over 1 million people who are destitute on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance. If the government only lifts the youngest child age to 12, it would be even fewer who benefit,” she said.
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