Life Matters - Separate Stories Podcast

Next month jobseekers will face a big change in the way they interact with the services that help them into work. Under the "Workforce Australia" scheme, jobseekers will have to 'earn' 100 points a month across various tasks in order to keep being eligible for unemployment benefits, while they search. There's been criticism of the new program already, which could impact up to 800,000 Australians, many of whom will be self managing, online.