Plans For Random Drug Test On People Receiving Welfare In Australia
January 2018 a two year trail will start in Australia to randomly drug test people on welfare, This is if the planning is aprroved by local govertment. Once approved there will be 5000 people inlisted that apply for goverment income support and cant find work. The people will have to go a random saliva or hair test. If tested positive 80 per cent of their walfare will be move to Basic Card which can only be used to buy food, rent, child care... Comment Below on what you thing about this. Welfare Fraud Today I read in an online news report that -in Australia- "WELFARE cheats, tax rorters and crooked public servants are ripping off more than $600 million a year as part of a fraud epidemic across the Commonwealth". That's a total of about 800,000 incidents of fraud, thereby lifting the cost of welfare fraud up by 10% to A$489,000,000. Staggering fact: "Young people ripping off the dole and single mums on parental payments emerged as the biggest - and costl...