Centrelink disability interview.
Centrelink appointment for my disability claim and job
assessment. Only four months of waiting since my application went in. We met
with a psychologist (I think that’s what she said she was) called L...
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Politically I'm a non participant but it does worry me that we appear to have a government that is very proud of its performance when it comes to 'weeding out' malingerers who have engineered themselves into the public teat. Admissions to the pension system are at all time lows.
Terrific. Except that Newstart is a punitive payment that is set so punishingly low that you need to starve or embrace criminal enterprise if that is all you have to live on. Not quite fair in our circumstances when you genuinely can not take on enough work to keep yourself solvent.
I'm grateful that my treatment was delivered at a reasonable cost in one of the most medically advanced countries in the world. That I now can't afford to pay my bills is bizarre, but that's what it is. Save you then strip you back to nothing and make you beg. If I had to choose between money wasted on chemo rads and reconstruction repeated over decade and some financial peace of mind now it would be a no brainer. But there are no crystal balls.
Terrific. Except that Newstart is a punitive payment that is set so punishingly low that you need to starve or embrace criminal enterprise if that is all you have to live on. Not quite fair in our circumstances when you genuinely can not take on enough work to keep yourself solvent.
I'm grateful that my treatment was delivered at a reasonable cost in one of the most medically advanced countries in the world. That I now can't afford to pay my bills is bizarre, but that's what it is. Save you then strip you back to nothing and make you beg. If I had to choose between money wasted on chemo rads and reconstruction repeated over decade and some financial peace of mind now it would be a no brainer. But there are no crystal balls.