Changes to Hardship Assistance Access Requirements for People in Need
06 August 2019.
The Changes to Hardship Assistance Access Requirements Package contains documents relating to decisions around requiring people who have received three or more grants of hardship assistance within 12 months to complete a compulsory budgeting activity before they are able to receive further hardship assistance.
The Cabinet paper was seeking agreement to rescind a Cabinet decision from 2010 requiring this practice.