Sky News can reveal there will be an increase in the JobSeeker payment “across the board” of up to $40 a fortnight, according to Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
Mr Clennell said the increased revenues allow an increase to the JobSeeker payment across the board to be “ratified” in an Expenditure Review
Committee meeting.“To deliver a surplus and not deliver such assistance when JobSeeker is just $49 a day would have really angered the Labor base.”
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