These are the dole bludgers Labor pushed onto Welfare during the six sick years of Labor's Socialist waste and disgrace.Taxpayers forking out $300,000 a minute for welfare7:07am Oct 23, 2017
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Australian taxpayers are shelling out $300,000 per minute to foot the nation’s welfare bill, according to a report.
Welfare spending reportedly accounts for about a third of the federal government’s budget, and costs taxpayers about $430 million per day.
The total lifetime welfare bill for those receiving benefits has also been estimated at $2.1 trillion, The Herald Sun reports.
Students currently receiving government financial support to study are expected to need welfare for half their lives, costing taxpayers about $250,000.
Aussie's fork out nearly $430 million per day for welfare.
However, two-thirds of people on welfare no longer received it within a year, the Department of Social Services (DSS) said.
"My job as Minister is to ensure taxpayer funds are spent on helping those who actually need it, and that we aren’t borrowing money to fund the welfare system of our time, as this just forces our children to pay it off through higher taxes in the future," DSS Minister Christian Port told the newspaper.
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Earlier this year, the top suburbs and towns in Australia for dole bludgers who miss job interviews and don’t turn up to work-for-the-dole appointments was revealed.
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Caboolture, north of Brisbane, topped the list, while Blacktown in Sydney’s west came in at number two.
The north-west Victorian town of Mildura has the highest rate of dole recipients in the state who consistently failed to attend appointments or job interviews in the past year, the data revealed.
Frankston, Deception Bay, Werribee, St Albans, Dubbo, Auburn and Dandenong rounded out the top ten.
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