RE: Why Are So Many On Welfare
December 3, 2012 at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2012 at 2:06 am by Justtristo.)
(December 2, 2012 at 11:46 pm)Daniel Wrote: Some of them do need help to put food on the table, or to pay their bills. I have a friend on disability that gets $150 a week disability (he is completely unable to work), he eats once a day.
I am not denigrating people in this country who truly struggle to pay their bills, along with keeping a roof over their heads and getting enough to eat. However in Australia from what I have heard, few people with full time jobs (even minimum wage ones) are struggling in that sense. In America you have millions of low paid workers who do.
Also I remember I was just mentioning people who were working, as opposed whose whole income comes from government payments.
AUD 150 a week in disability pension payments? The minimum rate of the unemployment benefit is at least AUD 250 a week. While the aged and disability pensions are AUD 386.30 a week. The lowest minimum wage in the USA is USD 7.15 an hour, which for a 40 hour week comes out to USD 286 per week.
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