welfare Claims | PoliticalClaims.au

C0010 Partially True

6.0

"Cut funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 4% per participant."

DisabilityWelfare

C0074 True

8.0

"Repeatedly refused to publish legal advice they received before implementing the robo-debt scheme (which has since been ruled to be illegal)"

CorruptionWelfare

C0086 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $6.7 million in JobKeeper subsidies to a private company whose profits quadrupled during 2020, and which is half-owned by a foreigner via a shell..."

COVIDEconomyTax +1 more

C0087 Partially True

6.0

"Handed $1.34 billion to Qantas (a private company) for the purpose of creating jobs, but Qantas spent most of that paying redundancy packages while cu..."

EconomyTaxWelfare

C0088 Partially True

6.5

"Handed $38 billion in JobKeeper payments to companies who did not suffer significant downturns during COVID, and refused to ask for the money back onc..."

EconomyTaxWelfare

C0093 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $250,000 per month developing an NDIS app. They have no data about how many users wanted the app."

DisabilityTaxWelfare

C0096 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a robo-debt style program to claw back money from disabled people under the NDIS, waving away all concerns about accuracy and ethics by tacki..."

DisabilityTechWelfare

C0132 Partially True

6.0

"Refused to publish a $2.5 million evaluation of the cashless welfare card system because the evaluation found that the $80 million program was not cle..."

CorruptionTaxWelfare

C0139 True

7.0

"Cut funding for Homelessness Australia by $41 million, during a recession."

Welfare

C0145 Partially True

6.0

"Increased administrative payments to job finding agencies, totalling $300 million during the pandemic."

TaxWelfare

C0154 Partially True

6.0

"Prevented Australian universities from receiving JobKeeper payments, whilst paying JobSeeker money to a foreign university. (University education is A..."

EconomyEducationWelfare +1 more

C0159 Partially True

6.5

"Defined the eligibility criteria for the JobKeeper scheme so loosely that millions of dollars from the government which were supposed to subsidise emp..."

CorruptionEconomyTax +1 more

C0266 Partially True

3.0

"Spent $400 million on a problem plagued automated "robodebt" system which recovered only $500 million of unpaid debt, through an illegal "guilty until..."

EconomyEthicsTax +1 more

C0269 True

9.0

"Refused to publish a report used to justify a $53 million contract to outsource Centrelink call handling."

CorruptionWelfare

C0299 Partially True

6.0

"Cut funding for the Foodbank charity for a third time. This time $323,000 was cut just before Christmas."

Welfare

C0325 True

9.0

"Chose not to take back money given to an exploitative coffee chain who violated the terms of the payment which was part of the PaTH program."

TaxWelfare

C0347 Partially True

7.0

"Cut all funding for the 40 year-old Haymarket health clinic for the homeless, resulting in its closure."

COVIDWelfare

C0351 Partially True

5.0

"Paid companies to hire young people for entry level jobs at far less than the minimum wage. There is evidence that companies replace real jobs with th..."

WelfareYouth

C0364 True

7.0

"Started drug testing welfare recipients without consulting legal, medical or drug experts. They simultaneously claim people will be selected randomly ..."

COVIDTerrorWelfare

C0366 Partially True

6.0

"Spent around $10k per person per year for a cashless welfare card trial, for welfare payments worth $14k per person per year. That's a 70% overhead. T..."

CorruptionTaxWelfare

C0373 True

8.0

"Claimed many 'community leaders' support the cashless welfare card, but refused to list such supporters when asked."

Welfare

C0381 Partially True

7.0

"Refused to release a report into the death of a person on the government's Work for the Dole program."

CorruptionEthicsUnion +1 more

C0385 Partially True

6.0

"Changed Newstart eligibility so that 22 to 24 year-olds get Youth Allowance instead, which is $90 less per fortnight."

WelfareYouth

C0392 True

7.0

"Fined welfare recipients for not attending 'hygiene' and tie-dying classes."

Welfare

C0413 Partially True

7.0

"Proposed charging 9% interest on all debts owed to Centrelink."

Welfare

C0437 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a government funded internship scheme where companies are paid lots of money to hire short term interns for $4 per hour with no award protect..."

UnionWelfareYouth

C0445 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed new powers for job agencies so that they can fine unemployed people, without any oversight, and with minimal avenues for recourse."

Culture WarsWelfare

C0453 Partially True

6.0

"Prohibited people who owe money to Centrelink from leaving the country, regardless of how small the debt is or how soon they will return."

RefugeesWelfare

C0486 True

7.0

"Introduced cashless welfare cards to reduce the autonomy and control that support recipients have over their spending."

Welfare

C0499 Partially True

5.0

"Started advertising the jobs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme board without notifying the current board."

DisabilityWelfare

C0607 Misleading

4.0

"Cut all funding of homelessness and community housing programs, except the ones they are legally required to fund."

Welfare

C0616 Partially True

6.0

"Forced indigenous welfare recipients to work for full time, for 52 weeks a year, to get $5 per hour."

Welfare

C0660 Partially True

5.0

"Introduced Work-For-The-Dole despite their own data showing that such programs are the least effective way of helping people find jobs."

EconomyWelfare

C0676 Partially True

5.0

"Cut $44 million from homelessness services."

Welfare

C0728 True

7.0

"Cut $1.3 billion from seniors concessions funding."

Welfare

C0747 Partially True

6.0

"Stopped giving under 25s Newstart. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said that this will violate our human rights obligations."

WelfareYouth

C0759 Partially True

5.0

"Cut welfare for young people, so they have to survive on $0 per week for 6 months, before being put on a welfare scheme which is below the poverty lin..."

WelfareYouth

C0762 True

7.0

"Broke an election promise by tightening disability pension eligibility and financially penalising anyone who spends at least 4 weeks overseas."

DisabilityWelfare

C0836 Partially True

5.0

"Cut all welfare ($260,000) for orphans of defence force casualties."

MilitaryWelfare

C0849 Misleading

4.0

"Kept secret the taxpayer funded 900 page Audit commission report which recommended tightening eligibility for seniors health cards."

AgeingCorruptionCOVID +1 more

C0861 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a 'green army' comprised of young people paid less than half of minimum wage without normal workplace protections."

UnionWelfareYouth

C0944 False

2.0

"Broke an election promise by renaming the NDIS, making it 'DisablityCare' and renaming the 'launch' a 'trial', thereby casting doubt on whether they w..."

DisabilityWelfare

C0954 Partially True

6.0

"Cut $43.1 Million in legal aid funding, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services, community legal services, the UNSW Indigenous ..."

IndigenousSafetyWelfare +1 more

C0978 Partially True

6.0

"Cut $3 billion in welfare for students, the elderly and families."

AgeingEducationWelfare +1 more

C0998 True

6.0

"Scrapped the Social Inclusion Board (an anti-poverty advisory group)."

Welfare

All welfare Claims

"Cut funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 4% per participant."

"Repeatedly refused to publish legal advice they received before implementing the robo-debt scheme (which has since been ruled to be illegal)"

"Paid $6.7 million in JobKeeper subsidies to a private company whose profits quadrupled during 2020, and which is half-owned by a foreigner via a shell..."

"Handed $1.34 billion to Qantas (a private company) for the purpose of creating jobs, but Qantas spent most of that paying redundancy packages while cu..."

"Handed $38 billion in JobKeeper payments to companies who did not suffer significant downturns during COVID, and refused to ask for the money back onc..."

"Spent $250,000 per month developing an NDIS app. They have no data about how many users wanted the app."

"Proposed a robo-debt style program to claw back money from disabled people under the NDIS, waving away all concerns about accuracy and ethics by tacki..."

"Refused to publish a $2.5 million evaluation of the cashless welfare card system because the evaluation found that the $80 million program was not cle..."

"Cut funding for Homelessness Australia by $41 million, during a recession."

"Increased administrative payments to job finding agencies, totalling $300 million during the pandemic."

"Prevented Australian universities from receiving JobKeeper payments, whilst paying JobSeeker money to a foreign university. (University education is A..."

"Defined the eligibility criteria for the JobKeeper scheme so loosely that millions of dollars from the government which were supposed to subsidise emp..."

"Spent $400 million on a problem plagued automated "robodebt" system which recovered only $500 million of unpaid debt, through an illegal "guilty until..."

"Refused to publish a report used to justify a $53 million contract to outsource Centrelink call handling."

"Cut funding for the Foodbank charity for a third time. This time $323,000 was cut just before Christmas."

"Chose not to take back money given to an exploitative coffee chain who violated the terms of the payment which was part of the PaTH program."

"Cut all funding for the 40 year-old Haymarket health clinic for the homeless, resulting in its closure."

"Paid companies to hire young people for entry level jobs at far less than the minimum wage. There is evidence that companies replace real jobs with th..."

"Started drug testing welfare recipients without consulting legal, medical or drug experts. They simultaneously claim people will be selected randomly ..."

"Spent around $10k per person per year for a cashless welfare card trial, for welfare payments worth $14k per person per year. That's a 70% overhead. T..."

"Claimed many 'community leaders' support the cashless welfare card, but refused to list such supporters when asked."

"Refused to release a report into the death of a person on the government's Work for the Dole program."

"Changed Newstart eligibility so that 22 to 24 year-olds get Youth Allowance instead, which is $90 less per fortnight."

"Fined welfare recipients for not attending 'hygiene' and tie-dying classes."

"Proposed charging 9% interest on all debts owed to Centrelink."

"Proposed a government funded internship scheme where companies are paid lots of money to hire short term interns for $4 per hour with no award protect..."

"Proposed new powers for job agencies so that they can fine unemployed people, without any oversight, and with minimal avenues for recourse."

"Prohibited people who owe money to Centrelink from leaving the country, regardless of how small the debt is or how soon they will return."

"Introduced cashless welfare cards to reduce the autonomy and control that support recipients have over their spending."

"Started advertising the jobs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme board without notifying the current board."

"Cut all funding of homelessness and community housing programs, except the ones they are legally required to fund."

"Forced indigenous welfare recipients to work for full time, for 52 weeks a year, to get $5 per hour."

"Introduced Work-For-The-Dole despite their own data showing that such programs are the least effective way of helping people find jobs."

"Cut $44 million from homelessness services."

"Cut $1.3 billion from seniors concessions funding."

"Stopped giving under 25s Newstart. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said that this will violate our human rights obligations."

"Cut welfare for young people, so they have to survive on $0 per week for 6 months, before being put on a welfare scheme which is below the poverty lin..."

"Broke an election promise by tightening disability pension eligibility and financially penalising anyone who spends at least 4 weeks overseas."

"Cut all welfare ($260,000) for orphans of defence force casualties."

"Kept secret the taxpayer funded 900 page Audit commission report which recommended tightening eligibility for seniors health cards."

"Proposed a 'green army' comprised of young people paid less than half of minimum wage without normal workplace protections."

"Broke an election promise by renaming the NDIS, making it 'DisablityCare' and renaming the 'launch' a 'trial', thereby casting doubt on whether they w..."

"Cut $43.1 Million in legal aid funding, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services, community legal services, the UNSW Indigenous ..."

"Cut $3 billion in welfare for students, the elderly and families."

"Scrapped the Social Inclusion Board (an anti-poverty advisory group)."

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