Welfare groups plead with PM: keep $4 a week payment for poorest Australians

By Fergus Hunter
Updated August 22 2016 - 5:08pm, first published August 21 2016 - 9:00pm
Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service, labelled the government's budget approach "harsh and one-sided". Photo: Jessica Hromas
Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service, labelled the government's budget approach "harsh and one-sided". Photo: Jessica Hromas

A coalition of Australia's leading welfare groups has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten pleading for the preservation of a social security supplement worth between $4.40 and $7.05 per week and paid to some of Australia's poorest people.

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