Logan City Councillors have yesterday voted in favour of supporting raising Newstart payments by $370 a fortnite, becoming the first council in Queensland, and 17th nationwide to do so.
The most a single person with no children can receive on Newstart is $550 a fortnight, and councillors say recipients in logan live roughly $370 below the poverty line each fortnight.
The council will now write to Federal MPs asking them to raise Newstart payments, which haven’t been raised in real terms since 1994.