The report, produced by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and supported by the Ecstra Foundation, draws on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Some 826,000 Australians forced to survive on support payments for more than a year
A long queue outside a Centrelink office in Brisbane at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in March last year. Source: AAP
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A new report has found some 826,000 people receiving the sub-poverty line JobSeeker payment - or 80 per cent of recipients - have been forced to survive on income support for more than a year.
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