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Post by roxane on May 14, 2014 9:51:51 GMT 7
so lets say you are away for 4 weeks. When you come back, your plane is late, might be 1 hr late or a day late, so that mean you over stayed which means you lost your DSP. So if you need to calculate possible delays that means you can't even stay for 4 weeks.
UK is in the EU, so I guess you can just go in and out whenever you like. I haven't been there only once just a day waiting for my plane at Heathrow, but everywhere in EU you come n go as you please.
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Post by kimmy on May 14, 2014 10:36:34 GMT 7
From 1 January 2015, recipients of the DSP who travel overseas for MORE THAN FOUR WEEKS IN A TWELVE MONTH PERIOD will need to reapply for the payment. There will be some exemptions, for example, for people with terminal illness or permanent and severe disability and no future work capacity. My understanding is that four weeks is the limit. Can a couple of four week trips per year still be made. Just wondering
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Post by keepyourchinup on May 14, 2014 10:51:33 GMT 7
I have gone through all 16 Budget Papers for the 2014-2015 Australian Federal Budget, and extracted all items that relate to DSP. I have excluded NDIS, Disability Employment Services, and internal Governmental costing matters.
I have put those details in the "Disability News/DSP in the 2014-2015 Australian Federal Budget" folder.
Please note that are important changes to DSP for the under 35's, and a change to Portability to 4 weeks overseas in a 12 month period except for those who are terminally ill or who have a severe impairment.
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Post by keepyourchinup on May 14, 2014 10:52:47 GMT 7
There are at least 3 different classes of DSP recipient: 1. Those that are terminally ill. 2. Those that have a severe impairment, that being their Job Capacity Assessment is that they are not expected in the future to be able to work 8 hours or more per week (I am in that group). 3. Those that are neither class 1 or 2.
It would appear from the Budget Papers, classes 1 & 2 will not be changed, so I will still be able to stay overseas unrestricted, as my Doctors have made it clear they never expect me to be able to work again, and that was accepted by Centrelink International Services quickly in February 2013.
For those in class 3, they would appear to be subject to the 4 weeks overseas in a 12 month period restriction.
If my DSP situation changed, and I was obliged to return to Australia, I would be on the plane as soon as my lungs would be safe on a long flight. I would not complain at all, as I am incredibly grateful to receive any money from the Australian Government. I am in the Philippines getting Registered Nursing care to try and get me better, and I see REAL poverty all around me, so I am overjoyed to receive my DSP each fortnight.
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Post by keepyourchinup on May 14, 2014 10:55:45 GMT 7
It is my understanding still that if you have been granted "Severe Impairment" (inability to work 8 hours or more in a week) by Centrelink Management, then if you apply to Centrelink International Services to travel overseas for health reasons, you are more than likely to be granted Unlimited Portability, as I have been only just over a year ago. The key to this process is not really the Government, but the details of your impairment provided by your Doctors, and their acceptance by Centrelink International Services. I had no problem at all with anyone at Centrelink since 2008.
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Post by keepyourchinup on May 14, 2014 10:58:35 GMT 7
From my reading of the Budget Papers, there is now NO 6 week rule, and it has been replaced by the 4 weeks overseas in a 12 month period. If you are currently on the 6 week rule basis, then I think it changed for you to the 4 weeks overseas in a 12 month period. It is my understanding that prior to the Budget, the 6 week rule applied to all DSP recipients, except those who are Terminally Ill or granted "Severe Impairment".
Those who are Terminally Ill or granted "Severe Impairment" could apply to Centrelink International Services for what constitutes Unlimited Portability, where there in no return restriction at all, which is the case for me.
I had Centrelink Management at Nundah QLD explain to me at the beginning of the Centrelink International Services application process, that Centrelink had long ago accepted that I had been granted "Severe Impairment" status, and they showed me that on their computer screen.
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Post by macadamianut on May 15, 2014 14:38:13 GMT 7
With this 4 week rule, those that can't get their partners here from overseas... or get granted unlimited portability, Their relationships will have to end. I can see a lot of mentally unstable people that have had their lives destroyed by a stupid government decision, that have nothing to lose.. wanting politicians blood, literally.
I don't know what options people have, if someone genuinely cannot work here, they cannot work overseas to support a family either.
This doesn't affect me, but it still makes my blood boil.
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Post by ding on May 17, 2014 8:11:18 GMT 7
I'm trying to find out if my gf has some distant, distant cousin or aunt or something in Aus who can sponsor her on a tourist visa. But then c/l would decided after a week of visiting we were in a marriage like relationship and cut my payment to partnered rate.
You can't win LOL
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Post by Banjo on Jun 26, 2014 16:14:21 GMT 7
Off topic posts removed.
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