Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment and Water (Senate)) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I understand that that payment can change because it's the payment that relates to your daily rate and your 14 weeks times seven days. I understand that that component of it will decrease and increase, according to how that payment is calculated. What I don't understand is how the gap payment is calculated. I think you're asserting that it also has a relativity to the jobseeker payment, but I thought the relativity was to the age pension so that you could top it up to the equivalent amount.