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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge fifty bucks a week, one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand families. This is the government's response to the fuel

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Speaker 1: price spike. It's working families who get it, working households,

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Speaker 1: people with kids on lower incomes. Greens want more. Ricardo

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Speaker 1: in India's March is with our Social development spokesperson.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So I guess the key question here, and this is

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Speaker 1: the point Nikola made yesterday, is who uses their car more?

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Speaker 1: Is it a worker or a job seeker beneficiary.

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Speaker 2: I think everybody is filling the pens, particularly anyone who's

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Speaker 2: in a lower middle income. We've seen reports of beneficiaries

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Speaker 2: who have kids who are not eligible for working for

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Speaker 2: families who are struggling to make ens meat, who are

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Speaker 2: struggling to get to job interviews because of the cost

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Speaker 2: that it's incurring on them while they're already struggling to

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Speaker 2: make ins neat. But you must have the most package.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, but you must concede that if you are

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Speaker 1: a beneficiary, you will be driving a lot less. You'll

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Speaker 1: have more opportunity to walk than you would have you

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Speaker 1: had a job in kids.

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Speaker 2: Right, Beneficiaries are often having to drive to job interviews.

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Speaker 2: Many of them are actually meant to be driving too

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Speaker 2: many job interviews. Some have kids with health conditions who

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Speaker 2: are in a benefit and are knowledgeable, who may have

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Speaker 2: had to go to a medical appointments, who may have

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Speaker 2: additional requirements. And we're talking about people who are already

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Speaker 2: struggling each week to make ends meet. So it's not

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Speaker 2: saying that this package won't help the family that it reaches.

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Speaker 2: It's about actually recognizing but if we're looking at a

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Speaker 2: potential worst case, Maarrio, those people who have kits who

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Speaker 2: are in a benefit won't be supported by the government's package.

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Speaker 2: So this is why we.

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Speaker 1: Ricardo, next week they're getting an increase to their benefits,

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Speaker 1: aren't they.

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Speaker 2: Those increases happen regardless. This is not something the government

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Speaker 2: has chosen to do it and increase the work complee

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Speaker 2: indexation not It's three does not actually help people make

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Speaker 2: in set. If it did, we would not be seeing

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Speaker 2: an increase in children living in material hardships.

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Speaker 1: Riccardo. It's an inflation adjustment, right, So it's three point

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Speaker 1: one one percent. Next week, beneficiaries are getting an increase,

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Speaker 1: our work is getting one.

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Speaker 2: No workers should be getting one, and the government has

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Speaker 2: the tools to increase In clickt the minimum wage, the

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Speaker 2: government has the tools to, for example, lift the wages

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Speaker 2: of teachers and nurses. This is something that the government

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Speaker 2: pitches if they wanted to. And it's not like wages

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Speaker 2: increase simply because of the market. The government has the

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Speaker 2: means to increase, for example, the minimum wage. It also

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Speaker 2: has ink the ability to increase wages within the public sector.

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Speaker 2: So these are political decisions, all right, Riccardo. Our issue

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Speaker 2: is that this is not Rich's kids who actually live

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Speaker 2: in beneficiary households.

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Speaker 1: For example, appreciate your time this morning, Riccardo, meaning there's

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Speaker 1: much for more.

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