Newstart recipients will receive their half-yearly pay rise today, but it amounts to less than 24 cents per day — or enough to buy about 36 peanuts, writes Peter Martin.

For example, the LCI for Newstart recipients is 1.9 per cent over the past financial year, compared to the average (CPI) of 1.6 per cent. You can't always get what you need.

A Senate inquiry into the adequacy of Newstart gets underway next week and is likely to reignite calls for an increase. Professional services firm KPMG has called for Newstart to rise from $277.85 ...

The proportion of Newstart recipients on payments for more than a year has climbed from 69% in 2014 to 73% in 2016, and according to the latest Department of Social Services figures, ...

Newstart is $244.85 a week, rent assistance an extra $60.10. In Sydney the total falls far short of the $420 median rent on a one-bedroom flat.

The Senate inquiry into Newstart is underway. It is likely to find that the typical Newstart recipient is neither young nor on it for a short time. Here, Owain Emslie and Danielle Wood share five ...

Newstart has fallen from 46% of median family income in 1996 to 36% in 2009-10 – or from a little way below the common relative income poverty standard to a long way below; ...

A new ANU computer algorithm can provide near instant answers about how to get the best bang for welfare dollars. It says we should boost Newstart and cut either pensions or family benefits.

GOVERNMENT and opposition senators have sided with the Greens to bring on an inquiry into Australia's $35 a day Newstart unemployment allowance, one of the lowest in the developed world.

Newstart: Struggling on $211,000, Barnaby says he knows what it’s like to do it tough Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says his own financial challenges prompted him to break ranks to call for an ...

What's life like living on Newstart unemployment benefits? Crikey talks to a jobseeker, a single mum and a graduate about how they live on just $497 a fortnight.

The ACOSS survey of 489 people on Newstart or Youth Allowance found more than four-out-of-five respondents skipped meals to save money, and about 44 per cent went without more than five meals a week.