Buy-now-pay-later schemes complicate abolition of cashless debit card, Tony Burke says

Employment minister says bill to abolish card fast-tracked as payment schemes mean you can't suddenly end it on a set date'

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Thousands of people have connected their cashless debit card to buy now pay later schemes, a complex" complication to which the government has attributed its urgency in abolishing the income management measure.

The Labor government last night used new parliamentary powers it granted itself last week to accelerate the passage through the House of Representatives of a bill to abolish the cashless debit card. The bill passed the lower house on Wednesday morning, 86-56.

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