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Oct 20, 2026
RuthHOST
And then it wasn't until March of 2018 that she finally found another job.
RuthHOST
So I had to ask, how did she survive financially during that time? She went onto the JobSeeker benefit and would have received somewhere around $350 a week, something she was extremely grateful for.
RuthHOST
She also sold her car, which gave her some extra money.
RuthHOST
And crucially, her mum was generous.
YvonneHOST
I am your host Yvonne and as always this podcast is information only and not personal advice.
YvonneHOST
In today's episode we are going to look at JobSeeker Payment and to unpack this I would like to welcome back Rebecca.
YvonneHOST
Thanks Yvonne.
YvonneHOST
Rebecca what is the JobSeeker Payment and who
RebeccaGUEST
is it for? So JobSeeker Payment is a Centrelink payment From the name, it's obvious that it's for people who are unemployed, who are seeking a job, looking for work.
RebeccaGUEST
But it's actually a much broader payment than that.
RebeccaGUEST
It actually captures people in a lot of different situations.
RebeccaGUEST
And it's all kind of bundled under this one name of JobSeeker.
Matt HeathHOST
Zero.
Matt HeathHOST
Yes, they do it for their future career, but it is tough when people are on JobSeeker laying in bed all day, some no intention to get a job.
Matt HeathHOST
They should get a study wage.
Matt HeathHOST
Okay.
Clinton MaynardHOST
But if the dole was to increase by 20%, as has been discussed today, would that not provide a disincentive for people to get into the workforce?
Matt BowesGUEST
Well, certainly you've got to balance those things up, right? And one of the challenges I think we have is that our unemployment benefit JobSeeker is both designed to help people who are on the margins of the workforce, who maybe do need some more incentives, but who also we're providing a lot of support their way through, say, employment subsidies.
Matt BowesGUEST
It's also helping a lot of people who are actually out of the workforce, have been for a long time.
Matt BowesGUEST
And they're the kinds of older Australians who at the moment already get a somewhat higher job seeker rate.
Clinton MaynardHOST
But if the dole was to increase by 20%, as has been discussed today, would that not provide a disincentive for people to get into the workforce? Absolutely.
Matt BowesGUEST
Well, certainly you've got to balance those things up, right? And one of the challenges I think we have is that our unemployment benefit JobSeeker is both designed to help people who are on the margins of the workforce, who maybe do need some more incentives, but who also we're providing a lot of support their way through, say, employment subsidies.
Matt BowesGUEST
It's also helping a lot of people who are actually out of the workforce, have been for a long time.
Matt BowesGUEST
And, you know, they're the kinds of older Australians who at the moment already get a somewhat higher job seeker rate.
Ravi SharmaHOST
Now we've all gone through the lockdowns and everyone that was cheering on all of this free money that came into the system in reality could never actually benefit from it.
Ravi SharmaHOST
Now I'm generalizing here, but people that went out there and got JobSeeker or JobKeeper, all these payments that the government really gave out, all it really did was it made its way all the way back up to the asset owners.
Ravi SharmaHOST
And that's why we have such an inflated market, whether it's property or shares, because all this money got created out of thin air.
Ravi SharmaHOST
Now what happened was the money got created and then it got used by the people that needed it.
Jacqueline MaleyHOST
You know, you can't, you can't win enough party, enough seats to, to form government just through the regionals and the rurals, um, and even the outer suburbans.
Jacqueline MaleyHOST
But I mean, I, I wanted to ask you 'cause the other thing that Frydenberg has done is very much defend his legacy during COVID as treasurer where he obviously spent so much money or the gov- his, his government, Scott Morrison's government spent so much money on JobSeeker and JobKeeper, um, under advisement from, you know, a group of, um, a group of people who-
Shane WrightGUEST
From Treasury.
Shane WrightGUEST
Yeah.
David ElliottGUEST
If you haven't got a job or an income, then there'll be no problems with inflation 'cause no one will have any money to, to spend.
James WillisHOST
Well, for all the billions of dollars that we spend on job programs and helping people connect with jobs and the obligations that come with receiving JobSeeker or Youth Allowance, and by the way, look, let's face it, this has been a problem for a long period of time.
David ElliottGUEST
Yeah.
James WillisHOST
But we also have this situation where if you speak to people that run, uh, restaurants, hotels, a- any sort of frontline business where there is shift work, they're all saying, "Hey, if you wanna get rid of migrants or scale back the number of visa holders, you must do something to put a dent in the number of people that are unemployed in Australia.
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James WillisHOST
Thank you, Graham.
James WillisHOST
Now, I'll get those details off air again so we can repeat those to the break and I'll pass it on to the traffic department as well relating to Beecroft Road in Cheltenham.
James WillisHOST
Feedback on the unemployment rate, and by the way, 129,000 more people have been unemployed over the last couple of years, but the overall number of people on JobSeeker or Youth Allowance is hovering between 800,000 and a million and this government seems to have no interest or determination to make a crack in that number and find people a job.
James WillisHOST
Michael says, "Hey, if you're older and unemployed, you need to become a bus driver.
David ElliottGUEST
If you haven't got a job or an income, then there'll be no problems with inflation 'cause no one will have any money to, to spend.
James WillisHOST
Well, for all the billions of dollars that we spend on job programs and helping people connect with jobs and the obligations that come with receiving JobSeeker or Youth Allowance.
James WillisHOST
And by the way, look, let's face it, this has been a problem for a long period of time.
David ElliottGUEST
Yeah.
Jacqueline MaleyHOST
You know, you can't, you can't win enough party, enough seats to, to form government just through the regionals and the rurals, um, and even the outer suburbans.
Jacqueline MaleyHOST
But I mean, I, I wanted to ask you 'cause the other thing that Frydenberg has done is very much defend his legacy during COVID as treasurer, where he obviously spent so much money or the go- his, his government, Scott Morrison's government spent so much money on JobSeeker and JobKeeper, um, under advisement from, you know, a group of, um, a group of people who-
Shane WrightGUEST
From Treasury.
Shane WrightGUEST
Yeah.
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