psychiatric impairment assessed at 20 Department of Human Resoures points or more under impairment tables, and There are payments and services available to help you if you have an illness, injury or a disability. There is also support to assist your family or carer. Disability Support Pension (DSP) inability, as a result of impairment, to You may get Disability Support Pension work for 15 hours or more per week for if you are unable to work for 2 years the next two years, and because of illness, injury or disability, or inability, as a result of impairment, to if you are permanently undertake a training activity would You must be aged 16 or over but equip the person for work within the next under age pension age at date of claim two years, or lodgement, and be permanently blind must have a physical, intellectual or Tick the box and record the date when ......................................... you have completed this section. Youth Disability Supplement If you receive a Disability Support must have an illness, injury, or disability Pension and you are under 21, you will • that prevents you from working for 30 or automatically receive the Youth more hours a week and that is expected Disability Supplement in your Disability to last for more than two years, and Support Pension payment. If you are receiving Allowance or must have an employment services • assessment ABSTUDY, you: PAGE 11
Department of Human Resoures There are payments and services available to help you if you have an illness, injury or a disability. There is also support to assist your family or carer. Disability Support Pension (DSP) You may get Disability Support Pension if you are unable to work for 2 years because of illness, injury or disability, or if you are permanently You must be aged 16 or over but under age pension age at date of claim lodgement, and must have a physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairment assessed at 20 points or more under impairment tables, and inability, as a result of impairment, to work for 15 hours or more per week for the next two years, and inability, as a result of impairment, to undertake a training activity would equip the person for work within the next two years, or be permanently blind ......................................... Tick the box and record the date when you have completed this section. Youth Disability Supplement If you receive a Disability Support Pension and you are under 21, you will automatically receive the Youth Disability Supplement in your Disability Support Pension payment. If you are receiving Allowance or ABSTUDY, you: • must have an illness, injury, or disability that prevents you from working for 30 or more hours a week and that is expected to last for more than two years, and • must have an employment services assessment PAGE 11
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