Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to Senator Cash, the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. Senate estimates revealed that 104,480 jobseekers and jobactive participants who had their payments suspended had not re-engaged with Centrelink. That is, they have dropped off the income support system. This includes 12,000 First Nations peoples, nearly 14,000 disabled people and nearly 10,000 homeless people. Fifty per cent of the 104,000 were under the age of 30. Is the so-called lowest dependency on welfare due to the fact that 104,000 people have disappeared off the system and that the department said they didn't know what had happened to them?