“$325 for someone working less than 20hrs is ... below the poverty line.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Bandt is correct in saying that a payment of $325 is below the poverty line. Having said that, comparing a one-off payment with the poverty line is problematic because it fails to consider the total income of the person's household.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Adam Bandt (Greens leader) made this claim around 3 June 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 17 June 2021, 14 days later. Its rating was “Correct”.
Adam Bandt has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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