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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: bigheadfred on February 18, 2017, 01:59:06 pm

Title: More than 140,000 families cut off from childcare payments for not vaccinating their kids in Australia
Post by: bigheadfred on February 18, 2017, 01:59:06 pm

More than 140,000 families have been cut off from receiving childcare benefits for failing to vaccinate their children.

The first figures from the Federal Government’s “No jab, no pay” policy show parents in Adelaide city and the Gold Coast Hinterland were most likely to not vaccinate their children.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt told TODAY this morning the controversial policy had seen a lift of 200,000 more children being vaccinated.

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/18/14/17/more-than-140-000-families-cut-off-from-childcare-payments-under-no-jab-no-pay#ArypKOoTlSLZuWhf.99

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/18/14/17/more-than-140-000-families-cut-off-from-childcare-payments-under-no-jab-no-pay?app=applenews