“And let's not forget that going into this crisis, we saw welfare dependency at a 30-year low because we'd got that unemployment rate down.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Yes, the data shows welfare dependency is at a low, but there is more to the story than Mr Frydenberg's claim suggests. Fact Check relied on two measures of "welfare dependency" when assessing Mr Frydenberg's claim: the proportion of the working-age population being paid a major welfare benefit and the proportion of households getting at least half of their income in the form of government benefits. In the case of the former, about 14 per cent of working-age Australians were receiving a major...
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In short
Josh Frydenberg (Treasurer) made this claim around 31 January 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 23 February 2021, 23 days later. Its rating was “Yes, but more to it”.
Josh Frydenberg has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- ministers.treasury.gov.auhttps://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/josh-frydenberg-2018/transcripts/interview-da…
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