Graham Douglas-Meyer surveys the current status of PLWHA and how the new government will affect changes that have already been made, as well as some thought for the future.

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.

This AFDO-produced paper provides background information on the many Australian Government funded employment and support services in the lead up to the introduction of the ‘welfare to work package’. The paper explores the major labour market programs or Employment Services programs, how they interact and how people with disability may be affected by the coming changes in policy.

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.

NAPWA has made a written submission to the National Inquiry on Employment and Disability, which is examining the barriers faced by people with disabilities in seeking work, and issues for employers in recruiting, retaining or fully utilising employees with disabilities.

p(standfirst). 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.