The announcement of a $20-a-day improve within the Jobseeker allowance has been met with jubilation by folks throughout Australia, who say they may now have the funds to hire a rundown flat in outer Sydney 30 years in the past.
The weekly fee now totals $366, sufficient to simply feed and home a household of 4 earlier than the flip of the century.
“I kinda don’t know what I’m going to do with all the additional money,” one Jobseeker recipient stated at present. “With $20 additional every week I’d have the ability to refill the automotive with petrol if it was 1983”.
She stated if she places the additional quantity apart in a financial savings account, she’ll have sufficient for the deposit on a home by 2125.