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Be veeery interested in seeing how many of these suspensions were reversed once logic was applied to their situations.
Start fucking penalising for invalid suspensions and watch the numbers plummet
In this case, it's the private "job agencies" that have the power to suspend (and most of them automate it). That's the main issue, suspensions happening automatically without any human oversight and by private companies that have little accountability.
It's part of their KPIs to suspend payments.
And it's part of my KPI to handle issues. if I handle them badly and fuck it up, I get into trouble. Apply the same logic
Look I'd love to see it but this industry doesn't work like other industries. It's about punishing and bullying the poor for daring to exercise their human right to welfare. In this case, being a compassionate, conscientious and professional worker will likely result in you not being good at this job.
Burn Centrelink and salt the earth on which it stood.
Centrelink isn't even that bad in my experience, it's just woefully understaffed. The private job "providers" are the real cancer.
These provider arrangements are one of the biggest wastes of taxpayer money. They're nothing but glorifed parole officers that police the poor. Get rid of mutual obligations and divert the funding for JSPs to raising the rate of jobseeker payments.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Jobseekers had their Centrelink payments suspended more than 450,000 times in the September quarter for not meeting their mutual obligations, new figures show, as the Albanese government mulls the future of the regime.
Data from Services Australia shows the majority of payment suspensions are related to mutual obligations, the controversial requirements imposed on jobseekers.
Between July and September this year, 502,698 jobseeker payments were suspended, averaging more than 160,000 a month, the data obtained by Guardian Australia shows.
The top reason for payments being suspended was people not meeting their mutual obligations requirements imposed by a job agency (418,934 suspensions).
In that period Centrelink also suspended payments after recipients left the country (32,992 suspensions), didn’t respond to correspondence (10,050) or were imprisoned (9,478).
Some of the agencies called for a return to the previous system where the power to suspend a person’s income was decided by Services Australia, not the employment provider.
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