'Cruel blow for pensioners': Labor promises to undo Coalition's energy plan

Shorten and Burney vow to restore supplement under threat for new welfare recipients

Labor says it will reverse the Coalition's plan to axe the clean energy supplement, which is worth hundreds of dollars a year, for those who went onto welfare after September 2016.

While Labor has consistently opposed the as-yet unlegislated measure, on Sunday the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, and the shadow human services minister, Linda Burney, promised that if the supplement was cut, Labor would restore it. The payment is worth $365 a year for singles and $550 for couples.