Sixty-three-year-old jobseeker forced to make 250km round trip to keep welfare benefits
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from on (#61G0P)
Woman from Yorketown in South Australia has been referred to a job agency in Kadina under new Workforce Australia program
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A 63-year-old woman from regional South Australia needs to make a 250km round trip to meet her mutual obligations and keep her benefits under the new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia program.
Michelle*, who lives in Yorketown, on the Yorke Peninsula, has been referred to a job agency in Kadina, about one-and-a-half-hours' drive or 125km from her home.
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