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Current rates fail to cover rising living costs, the Greens-chaired panel says, and wants base rate of income support payments lifted to $88 per day
A parliamentary inquiry has urged the Albanese government to address poverty rates across Australia after hearing evidence income support payments – which range between $43 and $54 a day – fail to cover basic living costs.
The government-majority but Greens-chaired inquiry, tasked with investigating poverty over the past 18 months, offered 14 recommendations to reform the welfare system in its final report released on Wednesday evening.
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