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The disability sector has backed calls for the Centrelink debt recovery “fiasco” to be suspended immediately amid concerns about the impact it is having on people with disability.
A man with severe disabilities who has been in state care since 1999, was ordered by Centrelink to prove his eligibility for a disability pension.
Disabled Australians could be forced to wait up to a year for their disability support claims as the government’s crackdown on the pension clogs the system with thousands of medical…
Disability support pensioners whose health is likely to improve could soon be medically reviewed – and kicked off the payment.
The Australian Department of Human Services has a series of videos available on their YouTube channel. These videos have been designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to
The reassessment of people on the disability support pension is always going to be a problem,” Ms Young said. “It doesn’t necessarily create jobs in the labour market, it doesn’t…
Former Telethon child Prue Hawkins has been told she is not impaired enough to get the disability support pension. A leader among WA’s disabled community, the 33-year-old wheelchair user has…
Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes has slammed suggestions the disability support pension is being rorted. Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes has hit back at the idea that there are too…
Forty-five per cent of the two million Australians living with a disability, live in or near poverty, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This is partly because…
People with disability are more than twice as likely to be in living poverty than other people in our country, says ACOSS’s Cassandra Goldie. More than 600,000 Australians with a…
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