Aussies set to get welfare boost in budget
The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee asked for a timetable on the increase of job seeker, not a spender, to under breaching 90% of the age pension overnight. If this is an aspiration that you share, why not commit to a pathway as the government has done, for example, on school funding? What we’ve tried to do with the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee is to implement what we can afford to implement in a responsible and methodical and sequenced way. We have done. More from that first report that I think is broadly acknowledged and there will be additional steps in in this budget which are conscious of the recommendations that that important, well regarded, well informed committee has put to us. You know we take it seriously. We can’t afford to do every recommendation put to us by that committee. In some cases announcing future directions is warranted, in others we need to be a bit more careful. Because we need to be cognizant of the the budget situation and what we can afford. We don’t want to over promise and under deliver when it comes to our most vulnerable people.