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Financial

24

15.2%

Education (e.g. short course, study)

22

14%

Employment/Retraining

19

12.1%

Settlement Program

8

5.1%

Interpreter services

5

3.1%

Taxation help

4

2.5%

Social security advice

3

1.9%

Other

9

5.7%

Reasons for Seeking Emergency Relief
Table 40: Reason for Seeking Emergency Relief in the last 12 months
Proportion of Survey Respondents
No.

2014

2010

Difficulty paying housing costs

89

56.6%

25.8%

Debt repayments

32

20.3%

11.2%

Interruption to Centrelink payment

21

13.3%

4.6%

Cost of travel/transport

20

12.7%

19.6%

Medical costs

20

12.7%

21.2%

Family Violence

15

9.5%

1.2%

Loss & Grief

8

5.1%

5%

Gambling losses

6

3.8%

1.2%

Alcohol and drug costs

6

3.8%

2.3%

Other*

25

15.9%

NA

All responses

157

* Other included: “Food” (n=6), “Newly arrived or asylum seeker” (n=6), “Bills” (n=6), “Homelessness” (n=2),
“Needing furniture” (n=1), “Carer” (n=1), “Legal services” (n=1), “Lack of employment” (n=1), “Limited
income” (n=1),

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