Half a million to South Australians

Submitted 8/12/2008

Migration for Business Growth

Almost half a million South Australians will get at least $1000 each from today in the Federal Government's $10.4 billion Economic Security Strategy announced in October this year.

A total fo $633 million in Economic Security Strategy payments will start flowing into the bank accounts of SA families, pensioners, seniors and carers.

Payments will be made by Centrelink automatically to the recipients' bank accounts.

Retailers are expected to benefit from the cash windfall, which totals $8.7 billion nationally and will be paid into bank accounts over the next two weeks.