Clock ticks on cashless welfare card plan

By Rebecca Gredley
Updated December 3 2020 - 5:39pm, first published 5:35pm
A Liberal MP is against cashless welfare cards, which freeze the majority of Centrelink payments.
A Liberal MP is against cashless welfare cards, which freeze the majority of Centrelink payments.

Scott Morrison is going full steam ahead with plans to permanently control the spending of some welfare recipients, after a coalition colleague rebuked the policy.

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