A welfare advisory committee has recommended the government atone for Julia Gillard stripping single mothers of parenting payments.
A special committee established to advise the government on welfare policy before each budget is recommending Labor atone for Julia Gillard’s act in 2012 of stripping single mothers of parenting payments, sources say.
It did so by ending a grandfathering arrangement implemented by the Howard government when it stopped parents claiming the parenting payment when their youngest child turned eight.The grandfathering arrangement allowed those who were already on the payment in July 2006 to keep the payment until their youngest turned 16.
It is understood the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee is not specifically advocating a like-for-like reversal of the change, but some other support for single mothers with the aim of reversing the effect of the cut.
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