Australia: results from disability pension reviews, & admission of RobotDebt failure

[Sean]

Paul Karp, Guardian Live Blog

Questions on notice have revealed that of 30,056 people who were subject to assessments of whether they are still eligible for the disability support pension from July 2017 to November 2017, only 135 came off the DSP.

Of those:

• 119 voluntarily chose to come off DSP and are either no longer receiving income support (56) or are on another payment (63); and
• 16 recipients had their DSP cancelled and are either no longer receiving income support (10) or are receiving a more appropriate payment (6).

So our rabidly anti-welfare government managed a net reduction of just 0.22% (66/30056).

No doubt the lesson they will choose to take from this result is to make disability tests tougher for the next round welfare bashing.

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WOW, #Centrelink just admitted to Senate that their online #RoboDebt system wasn't fit for purpose in the 1st instance & remains unable to process all but the most simple of compliance cases! Note that it raised hundreds of thousands of dodgy debts. #NotMyDebt #Estimates #AUSpol— Lorde de Voterati (@OzEquitist) March 1, 2018