Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into the “Design, Scope, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Contracts Awarded and Implementation Associated with the Better Management of the Social Welfare System Initiative” (otherwise known as Robo-Debt Inquiry).
SACOSS has joined with ACOSS and others across Australia in calling for Robo-Debt to be scrapped immediately. SACOSS has argued that the program has unrecoverable design and operational flaws and is causing enormous distress to thousands of low-income and vulnerable people.
In this issue of SACOSS News we focus on the groundbreaking social welfare reform that is the National Disability Insurance Scheme. With people due to enter the full NDIS progressively from July this year, it is timely to hear voices across the spectrum about the lead-up, experiences with the trial scheme, and what the future might hold once the full scheme is up and running by July 2018.
Climate change is linked to a greater frequency of severe weather events like storms, flooding, extreme heat and bushfires. And research tells us that it will be the elderly, socially disadvantaged and low-income people who will be most affected. The SACOSS News Summer edition focuses on climate change awareness, mitigation and adaptation, with some sector and population-specific solutions.