Sunday, August 14, 2005

Guess what? Carers are not entitled to emergency payments!!!!

DH went down to Centrelink at 4 to collect her emergency payment.
But guess what? Newstart recipients who have been messed around by
Centrelink
are entitled to emergency payment. So are applicants for Disability Pension.
But apparently Carers do not have to pay bills or eat or anything.
OK, so DH still has some acquaintances she can hit on for a loan to buy the
groceries.
But what about say older people, or people who are disabled themselves, or
are totall disempowered by years of poverty and isolation?
What are they supposed to do?

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA COMING TO???

Time to ring up HREOC and the Welfare Rights Centre. And maybe Tanya
Plibersek cd ask a question or two in Parliament?

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