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Advocates say government is failing to meet ‘basic obligation’ to process claims quickly after Tim McCabe spent weeks with ‘no income’
A New South Wales jobseeker says he was forced to complete welfare mutual obligations – including a 50km round trip for job agency appointments and enrolling in training courses – despite receiving no welfare payments for 11 weeks.
Tim McCabe, 60, said he applied for the jobseeker payment on 1 November after moving off a carer’s payment when his mother died.
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