OLD CARD NO NAME FOR NEW CARD YOUR NAME

New cards for people on welfare restrictions

Welfare recipients who have their payments quarantined will not be able to spend the money unless they have a new card by the beginning of July.

Basics cards are being used among Indigenous welfare recipients in parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland's Cape York and areas of Western and South Australia.

They can only be used at approved stores and cannot be used to purchase alcohol, pornography, tobacco, gambling products or gift vouchers.

The Federal Government is replacing the current basics cards with a new card which will have the recipient's name printed on it.

Centrelink says the cards will start to be distributed to people from next week.

But recipients who do not have the new cards by July will not be able to spent their quarantined funds using their old basics card because it will no longer work.

Centrelink is confident all recipients will have new cards by that time.

ED"S NOTE

Make your own mind on this, but the Government is good at taking a right to give a right in guise of well-being. 

SO the people who are too embarrassed, sick or other normal day things that might prevent them to shop and send their family will be forced to face indignity.

The time frames are scary, could be few hungry people, but Centrelink is confident, that should make us feel at ease.