Unemployment benefit recipients may lose their entitlement to unemployment benefits if they deliberately sabotage their job applications. (photo of the Daily Mail)
According to the Daily Mail, jobless benefits recipients may lose their eligibility if they deliberately sabotage their job applications.
It is reported that the federal government has redrafted legislation that will prevent unemployed people from applying for unqualified jobs, thereby continuing to receive benefits.
According to the government, some of the unemployed took advantage of loopholes in the system and deliberately applied for jobs that they could not get in order to continue to receive a new starting point (Newstart) allowance. For example, a person with only a secondary school degree applied for a job as a chemical engineer.
But that will change from July 1. The government will consider the quality rather than the number of job applications for the unemployed, which means that some job seekers may lose their benefits in the coming months.
It is reported that the new starting point allowance requires recipients to apply for a certain number of jobs every two weeks. It then reports to the (Centrelink) of the Welfare Department and submits a job application certifying that a new starting point allowance is available regardless of success in obtaining a job.
While some unemployed people say they are looking for a job, they actually stay at home, but receive up to A $762.4 a fortnight in relief.
Some lawmakers angrily said it was blatantly undermining the benefits system.
Lakat's congressman, Enge (Warren Entsch), learned that some job seekers deliberately sabotaged their job interviews. The men, dressed in bloodstained slippers and T-shirts, appeared at the interview in a way that was impossible to win. They didn't really want a job.
More than 765000 people in Australia receive benefits for more than five years, according to data released in July by (Department of Social Services), the social services department. In 2015-16, the government spent more than A $157 billion on benefits.
Kash (Michaelia Cash), the employment minister, said the government had always believed that Australians of working age should not be subvented by Australian taxpayers when they could not find a job all the time.