New Disability Support Pension Impairment Tables & Navigating Mutual Obligations for AOD clients

This event is about ensuring that clinicians working in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sector have a good understanding of how to use the new AOD specific table - and the related guidelines - to provide appropriate supporting documentation for clients applying for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).

We will also explore what happens when someone on Centrelink payments enters residential rehabilitation – or other treatment programs – for AOD dependence and the steps that need to be taken to ensure continuity of payments.

Please visit https://aadc.org.au/events/ for copies of each presenter's slides and topic factsheet.

0:00 - 02:55 - Introduction

2:56 - 22:26 - Alex Abel, Branch Manager, Carers, Disability and Student Payments, Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS)

22:27 - 46:37 - Andrew Wright, Director, Mutual Obligation and Compliance Policy and Dan Lausevic, Director, Assessments and Mutual Obligations, Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)

46:38 - 1:36:36 Panel speakers include:

- Nathan Dean, Director, Carers and Disability Payments Policy Section and Sara Morris, Assistant Director, Disability Support Pension Projects Section, DSS

- Andrew Wright, Director, Mutual Obligation and Compliance Policy and Dan Lausevic, Director, Assessments and Mutual Obligations, DEWR

- Donald Wolters, Assistant Director, Disability Pension and Parenting Payments Branch and Jenny Rohan, Assistant Director/Psychologist, Assessment Services, Smart Centre Operations Division, Services Australia

- Dr Craig Rodgers, Senior Staff Specialist, Addiction Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and President Elect, Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD)

- Toni Eachus, Operations Manager and Deputy CEO, Goldbridge Rehabilitaion Services, QLD

- Rebecca Lang, Deputy Chair, AADC Board and CEO, Queensland Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (QNADA)

Forum Chair: Melanie Walker, CEO, AADC