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With Sydney lockdown to be extended, Federal Government must urgently heed NSW Treasurer’s call to help those with least
With the Greater Sydney lockdown expected to be extended for another month today, ACOSS is again urging the Federal Government to extend the lockdown Disaster Payments to lift incomes for all without paid work to at least $600 per week, including those with the least – people trying to get by on social security payments or with no social security at all.
As the NSW Treasurer has written in The Daily Telegraph today: “First, the Disaster Payment excludes people who are receiving other forms of Commonwealth assistance. It shouldn’t.”
Poorest Sydneysiders face financial hit from lockdown
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