Disability Payment Reforms - OzChess

**Just2Good** · 07-30-2011, 10:45 PM

Gillard tightens disability pension | The Australian

Originally Posted by The Australian

AN estimated four out of every 10 people currently eligible for the Disability Support Pension would fail to qualify for the payment under sweeping reforms to the welfare benefit to be unveiled by the Gillard government today.

I sure hope these changes won't affect Garvin's disability payment from Centrelink. That would be terrible.

**antichrist** · 07-30-2011, 11:15 PM

I hope it knocks a few of the bludgers I know off the pension, esp the illict drug-effected ones - put them into hard labour will straighten them out

**Davo** · 07-31-2011, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Just2Good

Gillard tightens disability pension | The Australian

I sure hope these changes won't affect Garvin's disability payment from Centrelink. That would be terrible.

Did you bother to read the whole article ?

Garvin should be fine as anyone already on the pension should be okay.

You might be in trouble though, simply being too fat is no longer an adequate reason to receive benefits.

**antichrist** · 07-31-2011, 10:24 PM

The profile of a typical DSP recipient is changing from those with musculoskeletal conditions (currently 33 per cent of the total) to those with mental illnesses.

In 2001, less than 23 per cent of disability support pensioners had a psychological or psychiatric condition; now it is 29 per cent and growing.

AC
well it appears they are going in my direction of people who abused drugs maybe even years ago just marched onto a pension for years and even included heavily subsidised housing. And yet they are strong as an ox and even perfectly physically fit.

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Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Disability Payment Reforms Gillard tightens disability pension \| The Australian Originally Posted by The Australian AN estimated four out of every 10 people currently eligible for the Disability Support Pension would fail to qualify for the payment under sweeping reforms to the welfare benefit to be unveiled by the Gillard government today. I sure hope these changes won't affect Garvin's disability payment from Centrelink. That would be terrible. __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

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Davo Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 29	Originally Posted by Just2Good Gillard tightens disability pension \| The Australian I sure hope these changes won't affect Garvin's disability payment from Centrelink. That would be terrible. Did you bother to read the whole article ? Garvin should be fine as anyone already on the pension should be okay. You might be in trouble though, simply being too fat is no longer an adequate reason to receive benefits.

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07-30-2011, 11:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
antichrist Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Byron Bay, NSW Posts: 2,821	I hope it knocks a few of the bludgers I know off the pension, esp the illict drug-effected ones - put them into hard labour will straighten them out

07-31-2011, 10:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
antichrist Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Byron Bay, NSW Posts: 2,821	The profile of a typical DSP recipient is changing from those with musculoskeletal conditions (currently 33 per cent of the total) to those with mental illnesses. In 2001, less than 23 per cent of disability support pensioners had a psychological or psychiatric condition; now it is 29 per cent and growing. AC well it appears they are going in my direction of people who abused drugs maybe even years ago just marched onto a pension for years and even included heavily subsidised housing. And yet they are strong as an ox and even perfectly physically fit.