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Vic energy regulator urged to scale back proposed price hikes

  • 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.

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Financial counsellors call for an urgent boost to income support payments following report on Jobseeker inadequacy

  • 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.

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Financial counsellors welcome Government action requiring Councils to provide better support for residents in hardship

  • 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.

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Financial counsellors vindicated by Royal Commission findings

  • 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’.

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“Heartbreaking” and “cruel” – the warning from financial counsellors as cuts to welfare payments loom

  • 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Government to act now to avoid pushing individuals and families into poverty if the supplement is further reduced or withdrawn.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.

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Victorian financial counsellors fight to stop Federal Government changes to responsible lending laws

  • 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.

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FCVic acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government.

FCVic acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we live and work. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and to the Elders of other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Victoria and Australia.

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