Jim Chalmers is under pressure to deliver for those doing it tough – but inflation and national debt pose serious obstacles
The NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, gave some hints in that space last week. The states are going to be expected to step up – not just with funding but with “better supports for people whose disabilities are not so severe they require to be on the NDIS”.
“The challenge is if all we have is an NDIS, then every solution will send people to the NDIS,” Shorten told ABC radio. “Whereas if we’ve got more support in the community for mental health, if the school system works with kids with disabilities more consistently, if hospitals and the health system are more attuned to helping people with disability, then we won’t see, I think, the NDIS be the only lifeboat in the ocean.”Hopes are high that the government may raise the jobseeker rate, along with other social security benefits but there are no guarantees.
, but the most the treasurer has said is that the government “can’t do everything it would like to do at once”. “There are a lot of pressures on the budget. We will do what we can to make life a bit easier for people and we will go through the report that we’ve been provided on jobseeker and other issues with that in mind,” Chalmers said earlier this month.The women’s economic equality taskforce wants the government to axe the policy that moves single parents off the parenting payment and on to jobseeker when their youngest child turns eight.
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