'Families hungry on cut benefit'
The Minister of Social Welfare (Mr Walker) would find it difficult to draw up a< practical family budget: based on the reduced domestic purposes benefit, says Mrs Sally Clark, a member of the solo parents’ committee of the National Organisation of Women. Mrs Clark said experience showed that only $25 to $35 was left to feed and clothe families after accommodation costs had been paid. She was replying to a statement by Mr Walker in “The Press” of Thursday that there was no evidence of hardship from the reduced benefit. On the reduced beneft, solo parents and their children were going hungry, could not afford to heat their homes, did without adequate clothing, and went without medical and dental services, she said.
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Press, 12 June 1978, Page 7
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