Cost of Living

Pandemic supports are ending. It's not going to be pretty.

Power companies must remember these customers are real people and energy is an essential service.

VCOSS welcomes the opportunity to provide initial feedback on the Essential Services Commission’s (ESC’s) proposed approach and process to determining

The last thing we need is predatory bank bosses or dodgy debt collectors making the damage of COVID-19 worse.

Victorians are preparing for a series of price hikes and cost changes that take effect on 1 January 2020.

Default pricing is a significant and very justified intervention in the Victorian energy market.

Victorian energy retailers are attempting to block power users from getting a fairer priced deal, the state's peak social advocacy

VCOSS is urging the State Government to take significant steps to ease the financial burden for school families.

We welcome a political tussle over which party will do the most to get Victorians the best possible power deal.

A state owned energy retailer for Victoria? It might just help.

All school-age children should be able to play sport however simply making PE compulsory isn’t the right response.

The real issue isn’t intergenerational welfare dependency, it’s intergenerational disadvantage.

This is a horror show with no single villain. Many players bear the blame for high prices.

Think education in free in Victoria? Think again.

Victorians are about to get whacked by a series of price hikes in 2018, according to Victorian Council of Social

Every person in Victoria should be supported to live a good life.

New rules for power companies in Victoria will help stop struggling energy users incurring big debts or being disconnected, the

In the new report ‘Stuck in traffic? Road congestion in Sydney and Melbourne‘ the Grattan Institute has suggested the Victorian

The Thwaites-Mulder review into Victoria’s power markets provides an action blueprint for the Victorian Government to ease skyrocketing prices, according

Australian politicians must stop and listen to the voices of real people suffering under horror power price rises, Victoria’s peak

Victorian wages are failing to keep pace with skyrocketing rents, costing tenants thousands of dollars each year, a VCOSS study

The Victorian Council of Social Service has welcomed a plan to give new rights to people struggling to pay their

VCOSS is warning Victorians to be alert to a series of price hikes due to take effect in 2017. The cost

A coalition of sporting and social groups is calling on the Victorian Government to make sport more affordable for children from

Many people facing financial hardship may be assisted through improved, targeted assistance from energy retailers under proposals contained in a

The rising use of technology in the classroom and an increasingly competitive school system is adding significant costs to families’

Reports that Victoria is the most expensive place in Australia to educate a child in a government school shows the

Councils of Social Service across the country have rejected the effort at so-called tax ‘reform’ emerging from the Treasurer’s and

Stronger protections and better support for energy customers facing hardship must be at the centre of any response to Victoria’s

Melbourne being named the world’s most liveable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the fifth year running fails to