The Leader weekly poll - parenting payment

By Online Editor
Updated January 4 2013 - 5:33pm, first published 3:00pm

Tighter restraints on the parenting payment will see around 80,000 single parents, mainly mothers, forced off their pension and moved on to the dole once their youngest child has turned eight, leaving the families up to $223 a fortnight worse off.

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