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Factsheets
Community Services
Indicators of inequality
April 2011
Indicators of Inequality provides Australian inequality statistics within five main areas: poverty, income support, cost of living, community services and health.
ACOSS proposals for reform of family payments
April 2010
The current family payments system is fairly well targeted to those most in need and relatively effective at addressing child poverty. The basic structure is well-designed to reduce child poverty without undermining work incentives. This is achieved by paying the same amount of Family Tax Benefit (Part A) to low income jobless and working families.
However, there are a number of problems which should be addressed through reform of the system to reduce child poverty, particularly for low income families with older children and sole parent families.