What the looming cut to jobseeker means for tasmania

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It was cut back to $250 on September 25 and now is due to be slashed by a further $100 on New Year's Day, before it's scrapped altogether on March 31, which Tasmanian Council of


Social Service chief executive Adrienne Picone says will plunge many of the roughly 51,000 Tasmanians currently in receipt of the coronavirus supplement further below the poverty line.