The unseen costs of living with a disability in regional Australia
By Olivia Sanders
NDIS recipients living in regional Australia are calling for the government to provide better care for those who live remotely with travel costs often eating up a large portion of their support budgets.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-23/the-cost-of-living-with-disability-in-the-regions/106440882
Financial issues up for discussion at meeting of group for carers in Lichfield
You'll be unsurprised that the Department of Work & Pensions is still sending demands out for repayment of 'overpayment' of carers allowance even after Govt. commitments to reform the system & review/reassess all cases, based on Liz Sayce's caustic review of the DWP's actions against carers.
Once again the DWP's inhumanity is on show but this time its hard to mount the defence they're only doing the Minister's bidding as the Govt. is explicitly not asking for this!
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