From January 1, Wagga's welfare recipients will receive about $50 a week less in the latest reduction to the coronavirus unemployment supplement.

Mr McCormack said the government was providing a range of "job-creating initiatives" via HomeBuilder grants and JobMaker hiring credit and the number of available jobs across regional NSW was on the rise.

"I speak to many small business operators, many of them local, who tell me they cannot find people to fill vacancies," Mr McCormack said.

"As well, the Government has delivered some $27 million to the 12 Local Government Areas in the Riverina electorate through the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program to help create more local jobs and support local small businesses, including $5,133,260 to Wagga City Council."

More than 8200 people in the Riverina federal electorate received JobSeeker unemployment payments from Centrelink during June last year, including more than 3600 in Wagga.

Lacey, aged 24 from Junee, who asked that he last name not be used, was one of multiple people waiting in line outside Wagga's Centrelink office.

Lacey gave birth to a baby boy 10 months ago and was looking for new rental accommodation.

"I've had to keep cutting back on the rent I can afford and it means there aren't as many places I can apply for," she said.

Lacey said the coronavirus supplement, which effectively doubled unemployment payments between March and September, helped "heaps" with extra costs such as nappies and baby food for her son.

Lacey said she would not be able to get a new job by the time the coronavirus extra payments were removed entirely in March due to looking after her baby.

The St Vincent de Paul Society NSW has called on the government to increase JobSeeker, formerly called Newstart Allowance, rather than reduce them to the pre-pandemic level.

"Cutting Job Seeker back to its previous point is not conducive to helping people find work," Society acting CEO Yolanda Saiz said.

"It actually makes it very difficult for people to obtain the essentials like food and a home.

"Many people on Job Seeker rely on services from the Society just to get by."

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data on the unemployment in the Riverina has been red-flagged by the agency for potential inaccuracy but the numbers do suggest that more people were employed during November last year than in the previous six months.

Mr McCormack said the government was continuing to support Australians disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

"I have always said the best form of welfare of a job and figures released by the Regional Australia Institute on 24 November show there are plenty of jobs available in regional NSW - 17,452 of them, in fact, as of October 2020 - an increase of 35.3 per cent from October 2019 and a rise of 7.4 per cent from September 2020," he said.

"So while the Government continues to provide safety nets, at the same time it is delivering jobs, jobs and more jobs not only through its many work-creating programs but also through record spending on infrastructure, such as the Inland Rail project.

"The first section of Inland Rail, between Parkes and Narromine, is now completed and in that section alone more than 1,800 people worked on the project, including more than 762 local residents and 302 Indigenous workers."