Member Update on 2014-15 Budget measures – new Information from Senate Estimates
This document, Member Update on 2014-15 Budget Measures – New Information from Senate Estimates, provides a summary of relevant answers to questions from Senate Estimates hearings that took place between 2 and 5 June in the health, human services, NDIS and social services portfolios. The document provides a summary of answers to questions on the following measures:
Health
- Mental Health Review
- Mental Health Services Planning Framework
- 2014/15 extension of $170 million funding for 150 Commonwealth Mental Programmes
- Mental Health Nurse Incentive Programme
- Partners In Recovery
- Suicide Prevention
- Headspace Expansion
- Perinatal Depression Initiative
- Activity Based Funding
- Medicare safety net changes
- Medicare co-payments
- Medical Research Future Fund
- Health and Hospitals Fund
- Health Workforce Australia
- GP Education and Training
- National Partnership Agreement on Preventative Health and National Preventative Health Agency
Human Services
- Reassessments for people aged under 30 on Newstart or Youth Allowance
- Social Security Appeals Tribunal
NDIS
- The roll out of the NDIS
- People receiving NDIS support for psychosocial disability
- Average cost of NDIS packages
- Mismatch between PHaMs eligibility and NDIS access requirements
Social Services
- Compulsory reviews for DSP recipients aged under 35
- People with psychosocial disability affected by DSP changes (conduct of reviews)
- Number of people with psychosocial disability affected
- Compulsory participation requirements for DSP recipients aged under 35
- Sanctions for non-compliance
- Waiting period for people aged under 30 seeking to access income support
- Compulsory Work for the Dole
Links to the full transcripts of the relevant estimates portfolio hearings are contained within the pdf document below.
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