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 departmentā€™s publishing standards, responses are listed as Confidential. If you have any questions about information that has been published, pleaseĀ 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.

261 Confidential

262 Confidential

263 Confidential

264 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

265 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

266 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists PDF | Listen to PDF

267 Confidential

268 Anonymous PDF | Listen to PDF

269 Darwin Community Legal Service/Seniors and Disability Rights Service PDF | Listen to PDF

270 Australian Psychological Society PDF | Listen to PDF

271 Confidential

272 Confidential