Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I've had contact with—and I'm sure many of my colleagues across the chamber have had contact with—disabled people that are on DSP who believe and very strongly argue that they will have additional costs because of their disability. I put that on the record, and we'll be coming back to the government about that, but I'm asking specifically about people on the disability support pension who work, who lose their jobs. I gave an example in my second reading contribution where somebody is in a circumstance where they're continuing to work when they probably shouldn't be, because they're worried about the economic impact of having to stop work. This supplement is not going to be available to them. If they're a parent, they're on DSP and they have to give up their job because of the health threat—because they've got disabilities—how can they make up that additional money that they're losing?