SOME disability welfare recipients will be required to work for their payments under potential changes in next week’s federal budget. Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews says the Abbott government wants to push disability support pensioners with an ability to work into the workforce. Some of the 800,000 recipients have been on the “set and forget” benefit for too long. “With the right sort of approach we could actually encourage them to be the workforce and
HERALD SUN DISABILITY support pensioners will be banned from travelling overseas for more than four weeks as part of a Budget crackdown on welfare cheats. The Telegraph can reveal the government will tighten “portability” rules for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) to crack down on recipients taking holidays at taxpayer expense or camping out in places like Bali while claiming they are living in Australia. The government will also introduce tougher work tests and regular
The Australian May 01, 2014 THE welfare system faces a major shake-up with young unemployed people forced to move for work or lose their Newstart allowance, alongside payment cuts for disability support pensioners, single mothers and carers. The Commission of Audit wants a new rule to tackle youth unemployment that pushes young single people aged 22 to 30 without dependants or special exemptions to relocate to higher employment areas or lose access to benefits after
Disability pension for under-35s comes under Coalition scrutiny
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The Guardian 20 April 2014 Minister for social services, Kevin Andrews, may renege on promise not to make retrospective changes to DSP. People younger than 35 who are on the disability support pension (DSP) may be reassessed by an independent doctor, under a reform being considered by the Coalition government, and contrary to previous promises. The minister for social services, Kevin Andrews, is considering an interim report on the welfare system, written by
The Australian April 19, 2014 THE pension age will be pushed out to 70 in next month’s budget and may come into effect as early as 2029 under a razor-gang proposal to accelerate Labor’s plan to raise the pension age from 65 to 67. There are no plans to cut the existing pension but consideration is being given to changing the rate of indexation for age-pension payments. Under a “live option” being reviewed by the