'Dying in poverty’: disability pensioners left out of boosted welfare payments fear for future

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'Dying in poverty’: disability pensioners left out of boosted welfare payments fear for future
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Welfare campaigners were delighted when payments for jobseekers were increased but there is ‘a lot of anger’ from those who have been left out

A Tasmanian woman with terminal breast cancer has urged the government to include disability support pensioners in the upcoming boost to welfare payments, saying she fears “dying in poverty” during the coronavirus crisis.

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