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Emergency Relief Funding

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Status: Answered, finished
Asked by: Senator David Pocock
Portfolio: Social Services
Agency: Department of Social Services
Round: 2026-27 Budget estimates
Question No: DSS SQ26-000764
Asked: 3 June 2026
Answer due: 23 July 2026

Question

Senator DAVID POCOCK: How do you qualify for emergency relief demand? Ms McKenzie: We capture that through our data capture. The most recent quarterly reports are to the end of March, and year on year we are not seeing an increase. As Ms Hrast has said, we do monitor it very closely. There are regional variations in particular- Senator DAVID POCOCK: Could you table that- Ms McKenzie: I'm happy to, but which bit? Senator DAVID POCOCK: data about the increase in demand? Ms McKenzie: About the year-on-year demand? Of course.

Answer

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