The Coalition Government is tackling intergenerational welfare dependency in at-risk groups and helping more people off welfare and into work. Federal Member for Forde Bert van Manen MP said the Forde community can help get involved to help break the cycle of welfare dependency. “The Government will provide funding for innovative trials that tackled welfare…
More than 100,000 of the most disadvantaged Australians, many long-term unemployed welfare recipients, have gained a job through the Turnbull Government’s wage subsidy program since 2015, including 1003 people in the electorate of Forde. Wage subsidies are playing a strong role in helping some of our most disadvantaged people looking for work get an opportunity…
Former part-pensioners in Forde will have their Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) reinstated from this week. These former part-pensioners lost the card in January as a consequence of reforms to the pension assets test, which were designed to make the pension system more affordable and sustainable for the future. “Those reforms provided increased pension for people…
The Turnbull Government has assisted 10,000 long-term unemployed young Australians get off welfare and into work through the Youth Bonus Wage subsidy component of the Youth Jobs PaTH program. Federal Member for Forde Bert van Manen said the Youth Jobs PaTH program was delivering significant outcomes by getting young people off welfare, into work and…
Innovative ideas that help move people from welfare to work will be funded by the Turnbull Government, with the opening of the $96 million Try, Test and Learn Fund. Federal Member for Forde Bert van Manen MP said using insight from the Australian Priority Investment Approach to Welfare, the Try, Test and Learn Fund would…