poverty increased due to the removal of COVID income supports and large increases in rents. From June 2021 to June 2023，226 a week for a couple with two children. When using the poverty line of 50% of median household after-tax income minus housing costs，000 children. • After the COVID lockdowns， from 2020-21 to 2022-23， which rose by $134 per week in the case of a sole parent family with two children (8-12 years) but were still $163 below the poverty line. This was mainly due to the extension of Parenting Parent Single (PPS) to those whose youngest child was eight to 13 years old. However the majority of sole parents on income support (who were already receiving PPS) did not benefit from this increase in payments. ， from $395 to $528 in Melbourne (34%)， we find that: • More than one in seven people in Australia (14.2%) live below the poverty line . That amounts to 3。
Key findings Using the latest data from the Melbourne Institute’s HILDA Survey for 2022-23: • The poverty line is $584 a week for a single adult and $1，。
and Jobseeker and Family Tax Benefits for a couple with two school age children were $299 below the line. ° The largest increases in payments were for sole parents with children eight to 12 years。
and from $394 to $554 in Brisbane (41%). • The proportion of all people in poverty rose by 1.8 percentage points from 12.4% (one in eight) in 2020-21 to 14.2% (one in seven) in 2022-23. • The depth of poverty (average gap between incomes of people in poverty and the poverty line) increased from $372 per week to $390 over the same two-year period. • Although the real increases in social security payments introduced by the Government in 2023 reduced the gaps between payments and the poverty line， especially for people on Youth Allowance or Jobseeker Payment. ° After the increases in September 2023， maximum Youth Allowance payments for a person living away from the parental home were $279 per week below the poverty line，706。
Jobseeker for a single person was $205 below the line。
these gaps remain substantial， the median advertised rent for units rose from $486 per week to $680 in Sydney (40%)，000 people. • One in six children under 15 years (15.6%) live in poverty. That amounts to 757。