Labor senator Kim Carr said he regarded linking the family benefit cuts with extra assistance for the car industry as being a “blackmail proposition”.
New figures show that single parents who earn less than $100,000 a year and have teenage children make up the biggest group of losers under new cuts, which the federal government is describing as being like a game of “snakes and ladders”.
The new cuts, which save the budget $4.8bn over four years, remove family tax benefits worth $2,737 a year from single income families when their youngest turns 13 and reduces the payment to $1,000 for sole parents of teenagers and grandparents caring for teenagers.
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