The average wait time to be assessed for the Disability Support Pension has tripled in four years. It's leaving people 'genuinely in crisis' without income support for months.
Average wait times for the Disability Support Pension have tripled in the last four years to 107 days, according to new data from Services Australia revealed during Senate estimates.
The maximum rate of JobSeeker for a single person with no dependents is roughly $763 a fortnight, which is just under $20,000 a year.Deputy chief executive officer of Services Australia Jarrod Howard said the complexities of DSP claims means they can take longer to assess than many other income support payments.
A 2021 report from the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations estimated more than 376,000 people had moved from DSP to JobSeeker, with chronic illness and psycho social illnesses being the biggest groups represented. According to the data from the most recent Senate estimates, on average it takes 123 days for people with mental illness or psychiatric disabilities to be assessed for DSP.
"After picking up my three-year-old son from pre-school, he asked us: 'Do we have enough money to buy milk for the fridge today?'"The worst part was the answer to his question was no." "I told them that the bank had now filed in the New South Wales Supreme Court to seize the home, to foreclose on the loan, and take the home and that things were incredibly desperate," he said.
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