YOUNGER people on the disability support pension (DSP) are set to have their ability to work reviewed under a budget plan to rein in the rising cost of social security payments.
That's set to be announced in the budget on Tuesday, targeting some 30,000 DSP recipients aged under 35, media reports say.
This is in line with the report of the National Commission of Audit which said a risk-management approach should be taken in assessing those with the greatest potential for work.
"Examples could include younger people under the age of 35 and recipients who currently earn some employment income," the report said.
Liberal MP Alan Tudge, parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, said the DSP was growing rapidly with more than 800,000 current recipients and tens of thousands more assessed as disabled each year.
"What we would like to do is to ensure that those who are able to work are encouraged to do so," he told Sky News.
"At the moment the system tends to put a person on the disability support pension and then.... set and forget and leave them for a very long time, even though there might be a willingness, a desire and a capacity to at least make some contribution."
Labor frontbencher Matt Thistlethwaite said Labor in government had introduced a number of reforms designed to get those on the DSP into work.
He said that aimed to ensure there was support available for those who wanted to work and the necessary home support available through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
"The Commission of Audit recommendations are to slow down the rollout of the NDIS," he told Sky.
"If that is the approach the Abbott government is going to take, then that's not the way we should be supporting people with disabilities, particularly encouraging them into work."
In its report, the Commission of Audit said the DSP was costing $15.8 billion a year.
However, new disability assessment criteria introduced in 2012 only apply to new entrants, creating inequalities between the newcomers and existing DSP recipients, an anomaly which should be addressed.
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