Gillard tightens disability pension
by: Stephen Lunn
From: The Australian
July 30, 2011 8:31AM (how pedantic am I?)

AN estimated four out of every 10 people currently eligible for the Disability Support Pension would fail to qualify for the payment under sweeping reforms to the welfare benefit to be unveiled by the Gillard government today.

In the biggest ever crackdown on the burgeoning DSP, the government will today publish proposed new "impairment tables" used to judge who is eligible to claim the benefit, worth $729.30 a fortnight for singles.

www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

I was looking for how much it was when I found the above. Interesting read actually. Doesn't mention Vegemite though.

$729.30 a fortnight. That would cover living at home with mum in your 30s.
It's not exactly the good life. Jesus suffering ****. I'd be mentally affected too.

There are currently 815,000 DSP recipients...

That's... that's gotta be about 10% of the workforce. One in ten people of working age are disabled? Really? After watching the opening ceremony of the London Olympics I thought these type of numbers of disabled people were confined to ancient countries like England.