End Single Mother Families' Poverty

End Single Mother Families' Poverty

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Single mother families are the poorest family structure in Australia, with more than a third living in dire poverty.

Single mothers deserve to be given the chance to raise their children and provide the best possible life for them – they need to remain on Parenting Payment Single until their youngest is 16 or finishes school, so they can afford to feed and house their children.

The time is now with a Prime Minister proud to be raised by a single mother supported by the social security net at a time when it was adequate to live on. This is no ...

Single mother families are the poorest family structure in Australia, with more than a third living in dire poverty.

Single mothers deserve to be given the chance to raise their children and provide the best possible life for them – they need to remain on Parenting Payment Single until their youngest is 16 or finishes school, so they can afford to feed and house their children.

The time is now with a Prime Minister proud to be raised by a single mother supported by the social security net at a time when it was adequate to live on. This is no longer the reality!

Together we can help bring about significant change for the lives of single mothers and their children in this May 9 budget.

Find out more about how the poverty among single mothers and domestic violence victims is driven by government policy decisions in the 7.30 Report story below (6.45 minutes).

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There is still time to add your voice and urge the government to enable single mothers to stay on Parenting Payment Single for their parenting years in the budget THIS May:

  1. Email Prime Minister Albanese and other key MPs with stories and insights into the hardships single mothers navigate due to these policies.
  2. Ask them to stop putting single parents on JobSeeker while their children are at school, and abolish mutual obligations.

We must act urgently to persuade the government while they are making decisions for the May 9 budget. 

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Show our support and sharing personal stories could make all the difference to making this change about PEOPLE, not money.

If you are not a single mother yourself, please email the Prime Minister to tell him why you care about and support this campaign, that you want single mothers families' poverty to end, and share stories if you have seen these families struggle.

If you are a single mother, please tell the PM how surviving on JobSeeker has affected you and your children, or will affect you if you are on PPS now.

Tell him about your kids and your hopes for their future.

It is very important to include any information you have about the costs of children from aged 14 to finishing school, to be sure we don't end up with a change that is helpful, but not sufficient. What support do your teenagers need from you - or did they need, if they are older?

If you have younger children, tell him about your hopes or your challenges.

Tell him how Mutual Obligations have affect you and why they should end.

Thank you for making a difference!

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