Where the cost-of-living relief is going, and who is set to benefit.JobSeeker and welfare payments increase as living costs bite.The winners and losers of the 2023 federal budget.Ms Rishworth said single parents should not have to choose between meeting their children's needs and their family's safety or security. Mutual obligation requirements "to encourage single parents to participate in employment, study or training" would also remain in place. In a statement, Mr Albanese, Finance Minister and Minister for Women Katy Gallagher, and Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said that by the age of 14 children had "typically" settled into high school and needed less supervision, and parents were in a stronger position to take on work. The Gillard Labor government in 2012 scrapped the grandfathering, moving people with a child older than 8 but younger than 16 onto an unemployment benefit. In 2006, the Howard Coalition government changed the eligibility requirements for the payment, lowering the age limit to eight years old. The decision was grandfathered, so people already on the scheme could remain on it. But the federal government has stopped short of fully restoring cuts made by successive governments over the past two decades.
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