Welfare should cover only the basic living costs

By Michael Gamble
Updated January 28 2015 - 3:35pm, first published 12:00am

FORGIVE me, I didn't realise that social welfare benefits were designed to be used for purposes other than covering basic living costs such as ciggies, booze, pokies, punting on the four-legged lottery and Tattslotto.

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