As a single mother relying on welfare payments to make ends meet, Beccy Walker counts herself lucky that she's not on the street, but with the latest federal budget, homelessness has become a genuine fear.
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"I get Newstart which covers basically my rent – I'm in a government house thankfully, otherwise we would probably be on the street," she said.
Ms Walker has three children, two of whom are still at home – in year 7 and 8 – and during school terms works 15 hours a week in a job she loves as a school canteen manager, which also allows her to be home for her kids.
"The weeks I work I think I get $107/fortnight from Newstart, so roughly I’m getting $372.50 to live off to pay food, electricity, gas, car rego, car insurance, petrol to get to work, get the kids to school, school expenses, phone bill…" she trails off.
"Losing family benefits will probably … put us out on the street.
"Can we afford to keep our car anymore? Can we stop paying car insurance and hope we don’t have an accident? How do we heat our house this year?"
The co-payment to see a doctor will also hit her hard, as one of her sons requires ongoing appointments after an accident last year which had him airlifted to Sydney for emergency surgery.
"Seven dollars a pop when you've got your petrol to get to the doctors, you’ve got to pay for parking.
"I'm just really hoping [the budget] is going to be blocked in the Senate; I don't want to think the worst just yet. I've got depression and I'm on tablets because my aorta split open a few years ago," she said.
"I really don't know what I'm going to do – I'm going to have to leave the job I'm doing and go and get full-time work, which is another battle – I'm 44 years old, people don't want to employ you when you're older and I don't have a lot of experience in a lot of things.
"It was depressing enough trying to get this job."