How removing parenting payments when children turned 8 harmed rather than helped single mothers
- Written by The Conversation
As the government weighs up whether to extend single parenting payments to parents of children older than the present cutoff age of eight in this week’s budget, new information has come to light about what happened when the rules were tightened in 2013.
When then-Treasurer Peter Costello reduced the cutoff age from 16 in 2006, forcing single...