Senate debates
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Bills
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019; In Committee
12:06 pm
Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source
Yes—the adequacy of the services. One of the things we did do as part of the process of setting up these trials was to make additional funds available to many of these wraparound services that, in many instances, already existed within the communities. But we saw that, with the introduction of a new way of seeking to get people to manage their financial affairs and the consequences of that, additional funding was needed to assist them with those wraparound services. So the answer is yes.
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