Jobseeker forced to travel 60km to keep payments under new welfare program

Another says experience of new points-based system has been ‘humiliating and degrading’

A man living in regional Victoria has been told to attend job agency appointments more than 60km away under the federal government’s new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia program.

And another jobseeker, who has lived with a mental health condition, said he felt “degraded” by his first experience at his new job agency, after his mutual obligations requirements were increased under the new “point-based activation system” (Pbas).

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