Page 6 - Byfields Budget 2024

If you're on Centrelink...

Welfare recipients have received a suite of targeted new measures to help
ease the burden of the cost-of-living crisis.

This includes boosting the Commonwealth Rent Assistance for nearly 1
million households by a further 10 per cent.

This is in addition to the 15 per cent raise delivered in September 2023, at

a cost to the government of $1.9billion over five years.

Dr Chalmers noted it is the first back-to-back increase in 30 years.

The amount of people who qualify for last year's increased JobSeeker
payment will also be broadened to include single people who have been
assessed to have a partial capacity to work – in total less than 14 hours a
week.

Previously, the only people who qualified for this higher level of payment
were people over 55 who had been on a payment for nine continuous

months and people with dependents.