Welfare fit for families - articles & research

18 June 2018

Working for families

Will children get the help they need? An analysis of effectiveness of policies for children in the worst poverty in 2018 (May 2018) 

Progressive universalisation of Working for Families (March 2018)

Priorities for family income support  (June 2017)

Welfare system reform & inadequacy of welfare benefits

The further fraying of the welfare safety net (Dec 17)

Barriers to Support: Uptake of the Child Disability Allowance in Otara  (Nov 2016)

Proceedings Summit 2017: Beyond Social Investment (Oct 2017)

Proceedings: Social Security Summit – Investing in children (Sept 2016)

Benefit sanctions

Benefit sanctions and children: an urgent need for greater clarity (Sept 2014)

Benefit Sanctions: Children not seen - not heard ( June 2014)

Benefit Sanctions: creating an invisible underclass of children? ( Oct 2013)

Relationship status in the welfare system

Kathryn’s Story: How the Government spent well over $100,000 and 15 years pursuing a chronically-ill beneficiary mother for a debt she should not have  (June 2016)

The complexities of relationship in the welfare system and the consequences for children (Dec 2014)

Other campaigns

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