Australia Set to Abolish Cashless Debit Cards for Welfare Recipients

Australia Set to Abolish Cashless Debit Cards for Welfare Recipients
Cashless welfare cards by Visa. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Thousands of Australians will be transitioned off cashless debit cards, with the welfare scheme set to be scrapped by the Albanese government, which will use its first full day of parliamentary business in the new term on Wednesday to introduce legislation to scrap the cards.

This means more than 17,300 welfare recipients currently on the cashless cards would then have the option of voluntary income management.

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