Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2013 8:45:55 GMT 10
It's quite obvious though ... a system can only work well when the vast majority of the population is paying into it! That is not the case now. As for the disability pensions, they've got to move more Aussies off to make room for the thousands of refugees and asylum seekers claiming PTSD - for life!!
But don't stop there!! Stop paying whinging single mums, muslims and bogans to breed! Anyone on welfare does not get the baby bonus!!
I'd certainly get that budget in the black.
The welfare system in Australia is broken
EXCLUSIVE by Gemma Jones
The Daily Telegraph
April 08, 2013 12:00AM
THE social security system is itself a welfare case - with up to 400,000 people on the disability support pension (DSP) who could work with the right support.
Mission Australia chief Toby Hall questioned how Australia had reached a point at which more than $130 billion was expected to be allocated to welfare in next month's Budget.
Government reforms in recent years have resulted in just 7826 people leaving the DSP, with 824,082 remaining. In NSW the number has risen from 252,165 in 2011 to 267,680.Mr Hall said the changes since 2011- the same year The Daily Telegraph revealed that more NSW residents were on a disability pension than total Australians injured in conflict over more than a century since the Boer War - had only "closed the stable door after the horse has bolted".
"The evidence absolutely shows, with the right support, about 350,000 to 400,000 people could go back into the work force, which is why we think it is such an important issue," Mr Hall said.
Those people, through no fault of their own, are left without a proper level of support. They don't have access to employment like everyone else. That is wrong."
The DSP is forecast to cost almost $15 billion this financial year and almost $17 billion by 2015-16, after successive governments failed to get more people who can work back into employment. Singles on the DSP receive $733.70 a fortnight, compared with $497 for a single on a Newstart job-seekers' allowance.
Writing exclusively for The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hall said the DSP had grown 280 per cent in three decades but there was "certainly no evidence there has been a similar increase in disability".
He said while there was "no doubt" that most of them were genuinely disabled, "over the years we have allowed thousands of people without serious disabilities to move from the dole to receiving the DSP where they are not engaged in looking for work".He said up to 85 per cent of people with mental health problems - almost a third of DSP recipients - could return to work with the right support.
"It is good for them, it is good for the country," he said. "If a person's barriers to work can be overcome with our help, what's stopping us from trying?
The non-denominational Christian charity Mission Australia helps 300,000 Australians each year and has run specialised employment training for more than a decade.
Disability Employment Australia CEO Lynette May said the number of people who could return to at least eight hours work a week was between 350,000 and 400,000.
"We need to change our working arrangements to pick up on strengths," she said.
Disability Reform Minister Jenny Macklin said: "I want to see people who have some capacity to work supported to do so. Work provides independence, purpose and dignity."
But don't stop there!! Stop paying whinging single mums, muslims and bogans to breed! Anyone on welfare does not get the baby bonus!!
I'd certainly get that budget in the black.
The welfare system in Australia is broken
EXCLUSIVE by Gemma Jones
The Daily Telegraph
April 08, 2013 12:00AM
THE social security system is itself a welfare case - with up to 400,000 people on the disability support pension (DSP) who could work with the right support.
Mission Australia chief Toby Hall questioned how Australia had reached a point at which more than $130 billion was expected to be allocated to welfare in next month's Budget.
Government reforms in recent years have resulted in just 7826 people leaving the DSP, with 824,082 remaining. In NSW the number has risen from 252,165 in 2011 to 267,680.Mr Hall said the changes since 2011- the same year The Daily Telegraph revealed that more NSW residents were on a disability pension than total Australians injured in conflict over more than a century since the Boer War - had only "closed the stable door after the horse has bolted".
"The evidence absolutely shows, with the right support, about 350,000 to 400,000 people could go back into the work force, which is why we think it is such an important issue," Mr Hall said.
Those people, through no fault of their own, are left without a proper level of support. They don't have access to employment like everyone else. That is wrong."
The DSP is forecast to cost almost $15 billion this financial year and almost $17 billion by 2015-16, after successive governments failed to get more people who can work back into employment. Singles on the DSP receive $733.70 a fortnight, compared with $497 for a single on a Newstart job-seekers' allowance.
Writing exclusively for The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hall said the DSP had grown 280 per cent in three decades but there was "certainly no evidence there has been a similar increase in disability".
He said while there was "no doubt" that most of them were genuinely disabled, "over the years we have allowed thousands of people without serious disabilities to move from the dole to receiving the DSP where they are not engaged in looking for work".He said up to 85 per cent of people with mental health problems - almost a third of DSP recipients - could return to work with the right support.
"It is good for them, it is good for the country," he said. "If a person's barriers to work can be overcome with our help, what's stopping us from trying?
The non-denominational Christian charity Mission Australia helps 300,000 Australians each year and has run specialised employment training for more than a decade.
Disability Employment Australia CEO Lynette May said the number of people who could return to at least eight hours work a week was between 350,000 and 400,000.
"We need to change our working arrangements to pick up on strengths," she said.
Disability Reform Minister Jenny Macklin said: "I want to see people who have some capacity to work supported to do so. Work provides independence, purpose and dignity."
