School Grants To Cost $612M

The Parliamentary Budget Office yesterday said a Conservative Party proposal to increase federal grants for children’s education would cost more than $600 million a year but encourage private savings. The Department of Employment in 2018 complained millions of children are not enrolled in the federal program that offers cash grants to pay for college or university: “It still pays to start saving early.”

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