{"id":145222,"date":"2025-09-15T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145222\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:22:11","slug":"millions-of-aussies-set-for-cash-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145222\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Aussies set for cash boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Indexed social support payments will rise from September 20. Picture: NewsWire \/ Nicholas Eagar\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1gfnohs loader\"\/> Indexed social support payments will rise from September 20. Picture: NewsWire \/ Nicholas Eagar      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">About five million Australians will receive a boost to their incomes this Friday, as support payments are lifted to keep up with inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The age pension, carer payments, federal rent assistance, youth allowance and JobSeeker will all jump higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Single adult pensioners will receive an extra $29.70 a fortnight for a total payment of $1178.70, while couples will receive $888.50, a jump of $22.40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Single parents will receive $1039.70, a lift of $16.20, while partnered parents will receive $734.40, an $11.40 increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Rent assistance lifts $3.40 to $215.40 for a single and rises $3.20 to $203 for a couple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">A single parent with three or more children will receive a $4.48 boost in rental assistance to $286.02.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">JobSeeker payments are also rising.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Fortnightly social support payments will increase from this Friday. Picture: NewsWire \/ Nicholas Eagar\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1gfnohs loader\"\/> Fortnightly social support payments will increase from this Friday. Picture: NewsWire \/ Nicholas Eagar      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">For a single person aged 22 or older without children, the payment jumps $12.50 to $793.60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The total dollar increase hangs on three measures of inflation: the consumer price index, weekly wage changes or, in the case of the age pension, the pensioner and beneficiary living cost index.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Whichever measure of inflation rises the most will become the benchmark used to determine how much incomes are boosted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Australia\u2019s social security payments are designed in this way to make sure income support doesn\u2019t degrade in real value as inflation eats into purchasing power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The indexed payments are determined twice a year, in September and March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indexed social support payments will rise from September 20. Picture: NewsWire \/ Nicholas Eagar About five million Australians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27622,64,63,99,164,98466,14086,98468,98467],"class_list":{"0":"post-145222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-age-pension","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-income-support","14":"tag-social-security-payments","15":"tag-social-support-payments","16":"tag-support-payments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}