Characteristics of Disability Support Pension Recipients, 2011

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This report has been published annually since 2001 and provides the characteristics of the population of Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients.

Who is the Disability Support Pension for?

DSP is designed to give people an adequate means of support if they are unable to work for at least 15 hours per week at or above the relevant minimum wage, independent of a program of support, due to a permanent physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairment.

Eligibility Requirements

To qualify for DSP a person must be 16 years or over and be under age pension age at the time of claim (as at June 2010 - 64 for women and 65 for men) and:

  • be permanently blind; or
  • have a physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairment (assessed at 20 points or more under the Impairment Tables);
  • be unable to do any work of at least 15 hours a week, or be re-skilled for any work, for a period of at least two years; and
  • have become unable to work while in Australia, or have 10 years qualifying Australian residence.

Notes

  • The information contained in this report has been sourced from Centrelink Administrative Data as at 24 June 2011 and previous editions of this report. If an alternative source of data has been used it has been noted.
  • Where items have been grouped in this report resulting percentages may not be equal to the sum of the constituent figures due to rounding.

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