Canberra moves to make people wait a week for welfare

By Judith Ireland
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:53pm, first published May 21 2014 - 3:00am

More than 230,000 welfare recipients face a new delay to get their payments, with the Abbott government moving to introduce a one week wait for all working age payments in a bid to promote ''self-support''.

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