Article: Fed: Many welfare recipients live below poverty line: study


AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2006
Fed: Many welfare recipients live below poverty line: study

MELBOURNE, Aug 3 AAP - Many Australian welfare recipients are living well below the
poverty line, research has revealed.

The University of Melbourne's quarterly Poverty Lines report, produced by its Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, found single people on unemployment
benefits were living $77.09 a week below the poverty line in the March quarter this year.

Unemployed couples without children were living $28.23 a week below the poverty line,
while unemployed couples with ...

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