Consultation period

19 October 2022 - 4:00 pm To 11 November 2022 - 11:59 pm

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.

221 Confidential

222 Robyn PDF | Listen to PDF

223 Confidential

224 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

225 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

226 Confidential

227 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

228 Ashley PDF | Listen to PDF

229 Heather PDF | Listen to PDF

230 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

231 Painaustralia PDF | Listen to PDF

232 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

233 Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand PDF | Listen to PDF

234 Confidential

235 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

236 Kin Disability Advocacy PDF | Listen to PDF

237 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

238 Confidential

239 The Autistic Self Advocacy Network of Australia and New Zealand PDF | Listen to PDF

240 Confidential