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Urgent calls to simplify access and raise youth rate of DSP

David McManus
Disability Support Guide
Saturday 22nd April, 2023
“With access to inclusive education still very limited, discrimination in hiring practices, and disability employment services that often fail to meet individual needs, young people are disadvantaged on many fronts
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Social Security (Tables for the Assessment of Work-related Impairment for Disability Support Pension) Determination 2023

Federal Register of Legislation
Saturday 1st April, 2023
The Determination 2023 sets out the rules decision-makers must use when assessing a person’s work-related impairment for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) under the Social Security Act 1991. A number of
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Partner income tests are preventing some Australians with disabilities from getting married

ABC News
Monday 27th February, 2023

Julie* has been with her partner Simon* for nearly four years. She loves that he is well-read and smart, and that they share an appreciation for art and science. She…

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Centrelink’s Disability Support Pension application process ‘a hate crime’, says Sophie Reid-Singer

Erin Semmler
ABC Capricornia
Friday 21st October, 2022
Disability advocate and lawyer Natalie Wade says Australia's Social Security Act must be changed "to reflect the human rights of people with disability".  "The process in which they must go
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‘I am going to starve’: Ex-bricklayer’s disability pension plea

Emily McPherson
Nine News
Thursday 17th February, 2022
Given his physical struggles, Mr Patterson said he was shocked when his application for a disability support pension (DSP) – backed up with doctor's letters - was rejected by Centrelink
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Inquiry hears of barriers to accessing the Disability Support Pension

Anna Christian
Disability Support Guide
Monday 11th October, 2021
An inquiry into the Disability Support Pension (DSP) continues to receive submissions from advocacy groups and individuals about how the system is failing people with disability or chronic illness.
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Injured woman says she drained super to survive while waiting years for disability support pension

Luke Henriques-Gomes
the Guardian
Monday 6th September, 2021
Senate inquiry told Australia’s disability payment rules need to be ‘rewritten’ as people struggle for months before receiving support
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Disability Support Pension applicants are being forced into poverty, inquiry hears

Evan Young
SBS News
Monday 6th September, 2021
A Senate committee looking into the purpose, intent and adequacy of the DSP on Monday heard a range of longstanding concerns from people with disability and advocacy groups that the
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Senate probe into disability pension rate

AAP
Yahoo News Australia
Friday 14th May, 2021
The adequacy of the disability pension will be put under the microscope thanks to the Greens.  A Senate committee will look at the purpose, intent and adequacy of the Disability
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Disabled young people living on poverty-level benefits rises 300% in Australia

Luke Henriques-Gomes
Guardian
Monday 22nd February, 2021
Mary Sayers, the Cyda chief executive, said the figures had “exploded” for a number of reasons, including that governments had tightened access to the disability support pension, which is paid
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The Morrison Government’s unfair treatment of disabled job seekers

Vanessa Di Natale
Independent Australia
Wednesday 9th December, 2020
Meredith said her experience with having her welfare payment suspended for not meeting her mutual obligations while undergoing cancer treatment kept her “up all night with panic attacks”and worried about
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DSP Help: An online resource

DARU
Thursday 15th October, 2020
Applications for the DSP are too often rejected due to the lack of sufficient medical evidence. DSP Help has a medical evidence bot that helps you to get the best
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