Centrelink has backflipped after forcing a Dandenong disability pensioner with “incomplete quadriplegia” onto JobSeeker.
After a two month fight, the relieved 60-year-old woman was restored onto the disability support pension with back-pay.
After struggling on the less-generous JobSeeker payment, she can now pay her pile of unpaid bills as well as the many medical expenses for herself and her grandchildren.
And gone is the anxiety of being possibly forced to apply for jobs despite suffering a litany of health issues and barely able to walk.
“It’s been an emotional rollercoaster,” the pensioner says.
“Luckily I’m strong enough not to let this happen to me.
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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.
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In the early days of the pandemic, I was idly scanning social media when an Instagram story by a yoga teacher I followed appeared in my feed. It depicted a cartoon syringe with the message: “Thinking of having the vaccine? Ask yourself some questions.”
As a yoga teacher in my spare time, I’m part of an online community of wellness enthusiasts. But in my day job, as a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, I monitor the spread of online disinformation and conspiracy theories.
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I had always thought of those two interests not only as separate, but opposite – my yoga practice and interest in meditation was an antidote to the intensely political nature of my work, a form of escapism from the news cycle. But over the last year, the lines have become blurred.
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