Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) has called on the Australian Government to increase JobSeeker and other payments before planned tax cuts, estimated to cost $243 billion, take effect in 2024. CSSA executive Monique Earsman made the call following the release of Anglicare Australia’s research paper, A Clear Choice: Ending poverty for the cost of stage three tax cuts, which finds that the Government could raise the JobSeeker payment and the Parenting and Carer payments above the poverty line, as well as tackling the shortage of social homes, for less than the cost of the tax cuts.