Responses to our Questionnaire

The following responses to the questionnaire (responses) were received for the proposed changes to the Disability Support Pension (DSP) Impairment Tables public consultation.

Feedback was invited from all interested people with disability, their families and carers, disability advocates, medical professionals and other interested stakeholders.

The views and recommendations expressed in these submissions are those of the authors and are not the views or recommendations of the Australian Government. The Australian Government accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any material contained in these responses.

Please note, where consent to publish was not provided, or where responses do not meet the department’s publishing standards, responses are listed as Confidential. If you have any questions about information that has been published, please contact us.

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The following responses were received:

Note: We consider responses 19/20, 119/120 and 208/209 to be duplicates. However, we have included these for transparency.

201 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

202 Confidential

203 Australia Pain Society PDF | Listen to PDF

204 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

205 Albany Community Legal Centre PDF | Listen to PDF

206 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

207 Confidential

208 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

209 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

210 Confidential

211 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

212 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

213 Emerge Australia PDF | Listen to PDF

214 Epilepsy Foundation PDF | Listen to PDF

215 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

216 Confidential

217 Confidential

218 Social Security Rights Victoria PDF | Listen to PDF

219 Cancer Council Australia & Oncology Social Work Australia and New Zealand PDF | Listen to PDF

220 Confidential