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Cut Disabled Pensions to Help Pay for Floods: Big Business
Cut Disabled Pensions to Help Pay for Floods: Big Business
By Peter Ryan
Posted 22 minutes ago
The Business Council says disability pensions could be cut to help meet
the cost of the floods (User submitted: Conan Whitehouse)
The Business Council says cuts to disability services and foreign aid
should be considered as alternatives to the flood levy.
ABC News
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/14/3137847.htm
The Federal Government says the $1.8 billion tax is needed to help pay for
flood and cyclone reconstruction in Queensland and Victoria.
But in its pre-budget submission, the Business Council, which represents
Australia's top 100 companies, says the government should instead press
ahead with returning the budget to surplus through short-term spending
discipline.
Council president Graham Bradley says all current spending should be
reviewed and disability pensions may not be the best use of government
money.
"It is one of the large budget items," he told ABC Radio's AM.
"And if you look at what countries overseas are doing in this regard ...
for example in the United Kingdom, they are taking a really hard look to
make sure that there aren't people currently incentivised to be on
disability pensions who really would be much better off going back to
work, even if it is only part-time or less rigorous work."
Mr Bradley says it is in people's best interests to get back to work.
"Being a long-term unemployed person is not good for people's psychology -
it is not good for their health, it is not good for their recovery," he
said.
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