Kirsty on Nostr: npub1trdnq…gussx The SL repayment threshold is so much lower than Aus's (about ...
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The SL repayment threshold is so much lower than Aus's (about half), and the Community Services Card threshold means if you earn minimum wage for 27 hrs a week, you don't qualify unless you get an Accommodation Supplement. 😟
The budget could have done a heap by raising the threshold on both those line items... (if the CSC limit was raised to average wage as a minimum starting, for instance, they could have made the free prescriptions for those with cards, without getting Nat's KIAT).
The SL repayment threshold is so much lower than Aus's (about half), and the Community Services Card threshold means if you earn minimum wage for 27 hrs a week, you don't qualify unless you get an Accommodation Supplement. 😟
The budget could have done a heap by raising the threshold on both those line items... (if the CSC limit was raised to average wage as a minimum starting, for instance, they could have made the free prescriptions for those with cards, without getting Nat's KIAT).