Welfare recipients aged 55 and older are expected to receive a boost to their JobSeeker payments in a plan designed to help women and the long-term unemployed.
The widely reported top-up to income support payments would flow through to about 227,000 people and complement other changes to Centrelink.
Welfare advocates remain concerned the extra money will fall short of the $100 a week they were seeking and would exclude more than 680,000 younger people on JobSeeker and Youth Allowance.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers would not confirm the move but said there would be cost-of-living relief for Australia’s most vulnerable.
“There’ll be a number of elements to it,” he told ABC Radio on Tuesday….