Jobseeker forced to travel 60km to Workforce providers to keep welfare payments
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from World news | The Guardian on (#61DTX)
Another says experience of new points-based system has been humiliating and degrading'
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A man living in regional Victoria has been told to attend job agency appointments more than 60km away under the federal government's new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia program.
And another jobseeker, who has lived with a mental health condition, said he felt degraded" by his first experience at his new job agency, after his mutual obligations requirements were increased under the new point-based activation system" (Pbas).
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