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Friday, 29 August 2008

Welfare payments cut if children miss school

21/06/2008 9:15:00 AM.  | Erin Maher
Parents who fail to get their children to attend school could soon have welfare payments cut off.

A nationwide roll out of the Indigenous Communities Intervention Program, is being considered a year after its launch in the Northern Territory.

But it won't just be Aboriginal families who could face welfare cuts the Federal Government is testing the program for all welfare recipients.

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