Advocacy groups have called for further reform of the Disability Support Pension and condemned the federal government for its response to a Senate inquiry into the payment.
A coalition of peak bodies and advocacy groups have condemned the federal government for what they say is a failure to act on a 2022 Senate inquiry into the Disability Support Pension .
It made 30 recommendations to change the way the payment was administered and assessed to make it more accessible.in the Senate, stating that a "substantive government response no longer appropriate" due to "the passage of time since the report was tabled". In a statement, Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said the government has been working on a number of disability reforms, including
The advocacy groups said while that represented "a starting point" for reform, a failure to act more comprehensively on more "systemic flaws" has left people with disability "without the financial resources necessary to live".'We'd be better off financially if we broke up'
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