A Dandenong disabled pensioner with “incomplete quadriplegia” has been reduced to despair after being forced onto JobSeeker.
Suffering a litany of health issues and barely able to walk, the 60-year-old had been on the disability support pension for more than a decade.
Things changed after she was given custody of her grandchildren in 2020.
She received a top-up carers’ payment during that time – which appears to have led to her being taken off the DSP.
Out of the blue in March 2021, Centrelink declared she was no longer eligible for the pension.
She was instead placed on the less-generous JobSeeker payment and possibly required to look for jobs.