Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes has hit back at the idea that there are too many people on the disability support pension, slamming claims that the system is being rorted as "completely unhelpful".No shit Sherlock. Try living on the bloody thing and then come and talk to us DSP'ers about "rorting the system". Fuck, you get so little there's fuck all to rort. Just because it's more than the dole doesn't mean we're all rolling in it.
In the wake of fresh reports that Australia's spending on the disability support pension is unsustainable, Mr Innes said that there was no crisis with the payment.
"The numbers aren't increasing and won't increase for 30 years," he told Fairfax Media on Wednesday.
He said that while there had been an increase in people with a mental illness coming on to the DSP, as a percentage of the working age population, the number had actually fallen slightly from 5.5 per cent of the population in 2011 to 5.4 per cent in 2012.
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Mr Innes said that the DSP was pegged at a higher growth rate for a "very good reason", given the high cost of living with a disability.
He also said that going on to the DSP was not an easy process, and noted that in 2011 Labor tightened the criteria to qualify for the payment.
The Disability Discrimination Commissioner added that rhetoric around people rorting the DSP was "completely unhelpful".
"I'm in the disability [sector] 24/7. I don't know of anyone rorting the DSP," he said.
"Why would you want to be on DSP? Why would you want live on less than $20,000 a year?" Read more
But no the line is that we're engaged in an evil plot to live off $20,000 a year and laugh all the way to the bank, or something like that......
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