Please find attached correspondence from William Garton. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions in regards to this correspondence.
Kind Regards
Executive Assistant to William Garton,
General Manager – Access and Operations Management,
Participants and Planning National Disability Insurance Agency
Mr Bob Buckley
Convenor
Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia (A4)
Dear Mr Buckley,
Thank you for your correspondence dated 2 February 2017.
A4 members have expressed concern about Centrelink’s Disability Support Pension (DSP) eligibility and processes. They commented that “the letter you get from Centrelink tells you nothing about where to find the criteria for how [Centrelink] judges in/out”.
A4 could not find clear descriptions on government websites (or elsewhere either) of:
Having made no progress on this issue, here is a letter that I sent to the Prime Minister:
Dear Prime Minister
Since June 2016 I have been unable to access my son’s myPlace webpage via the myGov website.
I have raised this several times. Yesterday, I spent about 2 hours mostly on hold with the NDIA and the myGov helpline.
The NDIA said their system is working perfectly and that the problem is with the myGov website. The myGov help people check out their system and said the problem is the NDIA’s myPlace system.
On 21st December 2016, Bob Buckley, A4 Convenor has a video meeting with several NDIS staff to discuss A4's concerns over the NDIA's Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI) Approach. The NDIA then sent the email and letter (download below) to follow up.
email
Good afternoon
Please find attached response as follow up after our video conference on 21 December.
Included are a Signed PDF and a Word document for accessibility.
The Hon Christian Porter MP
Minister for Social Services
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Dear The Hon. C. Porter MP
Thank you for promoting a meeting of Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia (known as A4) with the Hon. J Prentice MP, Assistant Minister for Disability, on 25th November 2016. I am optimistic that further discussion will lead to benefits for autistic people and people living with autism/ASD around the country.
A4 is the national grass-roots advocacy organisation for autistic people and people living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Australia.
Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia, known as A4, is disappointed that the Australian Government decided to defraud vulnerable autistic people and that it chooses to discourage autistic people from working.
Your government’s latest debt fabrication scheme
takes money from autistic people who made the effort to get some employment, and
sends a clear message to unemployed autistic people that unless they can get a permanent full-time job, they should not try to get work at all.
