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Returning to work

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Q and A on welfare changes

Positive Living article • David Menadue • 21 December 2006

There are now three different categories of people on the Disability Support Pension depending on when they were placed on it. This article examines the effect of the changes on each of these groups. read more »

Back to work — for $2.27 an hour

Positive Living article • Paul Kidd • 13 October 2005
living with HIV

Disabled people and those with chronic illnesses will be up to $122 per week worse off and could find themselves working for just $2.27 an hour under the government’s proposed welfare-to-work program, according to a new report. read more »

The road ahead

Positive Living article • Glenn Flanagan • 1 August 2003

Deciding to return to the workforce, for many positive people, means trading the certainties of life on the pension for the uncertainties of work. One solution, says GLENN FLANAGAN, is to combine volunteering with part time work. read more »

Poverty and financial hardship

Submission • Rob Lake • 27 May 2003

NAPWA has strongly opposed proposed changes to the Disability Support Pension (DSP) which would restrict eligibility for the DSP to people who are unable to work 15 hours a week (currently 30 hours per week). read more »

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