Media releases
- Published: 16 October 2023
Financial counselling services across the state are reporting unsustainable wait times as demand for assistance skyrockets amid rising interest rates, unaffordable rentals, soaring energy prices, and costly grocery bills. Victoria’s leading community organisations are calling on the Victorian Government to urgently fund more financial counsellors to respond to worsening cost-of-living pressures.
- Published: 13 April 2023
Victoria’s leading social, legal, financial and consumer rights’ bodies have united to oppose a dramatic planned rise in power prices across Victoria.
- Published: 16 October 2022
No food, no medications, no home: the grim reality of living on JobSeeker prompts calls for boost to income support payments.
- Published: 9 June 2022
Financial Counselling Victoria (FCVic) today welcomed the announcement of new legislation that will require Councils to be more consistent and community-minded when dealing with rate payer debt.
- Published: 27 October 2021
Financial Counselling Victoria (FCVic) this week welcomed the findings of the Royal Commission into the Casino Operator and Licence which evidenced that Crown Melbourne had engaged for many years in ‘conduct that is, in a word, disgraceful… variously illegal, dishonest, unethical and exploitative’.
- Published: 1 December 2020
Financial counsellors are calling on the Government to act now to avoid pushing individuals and families into poverty if the supplement is further reduced or withdrawn.
A bill introduced into parliament last month could see coronavirus supplement payments for job seekers further slashed by $50 per week from the start of 2021 and axed completely from 31 March.
- Published: 8 November 2020
Victorian financial counsellors are slamming federal government moves to remove responsible lending laws.
The laws protect people from exploitative lending by banks and other lenders, but the Federal Government has just released a draft bill which will see them axed from March next year.