• Community Affairs Legislation Committee : 02/06/98 : DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY : Program 2—Income security for people with a disability and for carers : Subprogram 2.1—Disability support pension : [Senate Estimates]
    CHAIR —Any questions on program 2? Senator GIBBS —Can the department give any details and preliminary outcomes of its research into mapping the patterns of the cost of disability? In particular, how far advanced is this research project and how is any finding likely to impact on future government policy
    Date: 02/06/1998 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/s0000407.sgm/0009 - Source: SENATE
  • Community Affairs Legislation Committee : 02/06/98 : DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY : Program 2—Income security for people with a disability and for carers : Subprogram 2.5—Mobility allowance : [Senate Estimates]
    Senator GIBBS —I have a question in respect of the mobility allowance. In previous estimates hearings it has been discussed that a number of mobility allowance recipients had been cancelled due to uncertainty in what constituted vocational training as a criterion for the allowance. Following the government's clarification of this
    Date: 02/06/1998 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/s0000407.sgm/0015 - Source: SENATE
  • Community Affairs Legislation Committee : 02/06/98 : DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY : Program 2—Income security for people with a disability and for carers : Subprogram 2.6—Child disability allowance : [Senate Estimates]
    Senator WEST —Can you provide me with the details about how many children on disability allowance have had their payments cancelled as a result of the current accelerated reviews that are under way? Mr Herscovitch —Yes, I can do that. The latest figures I have are as at 27 April,
    Date: 02/06/1998 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/s0000407.sgm/0019 - Source: SENATE
  • Community Affairs Legislation Committee : 25/02/98 : DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY : Program 2—Income security for people with a disability and for carers : Subprogram 2.1—Disability support pension : [Senate Estimates]
    Senator WEST —Program 1 would have been pulled back if I had got the answer that I received last night more than three days ago. The reference is CA 177, which was one from Senator Neal that was put on notice on 12 November. It related to the copy of
    Date: 25/02/1998 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/c0000156.sgm/0007 - Source: SENATE
  • Community Affairs Legislation Committee : 25/02/98 : DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY : Program 2—Income security for people with a disability and for carers : Subprogram 2.5—Mobility allowance : [Senate Estimates]
    Senator FORSHAW —On mobility allowance, can you confirm that the 3,000 people who currently receive mobility allowance, and who are in training that is not of a vocational nature, will not lose their entitlement to the payment, following the government's announcement that attendance at independent living school centres does actually
    Date: 25/02/1998 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/c0000156.sgm/0009 - Source: SENATE
  • Community Affairs Legislation Committee : 25/02/98 : DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY : Program 2—Income security for people with a disability and for carers : Subprogram 2.6—Child disability allowance : [Senate Estimates]
    Senator WEST —Will any children lose their entitlement to the CDA as a result of the current round of reviews that are under way and prior to the introduction of the new tables in June of 1998, this year? Mr Herscovitch —Yes, they will. We estimate about eight per cent
    Date: 25/02/1998 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/c0000156.sgm/0011 - Source: SENATE