More than sixty percent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension have their claims rejected.
The DSP costs the Commonwealth sixteen point three billion dollars a year, but in the last decade the number of new recipients has reduced from eighty-nine thousand to less than thirty-two thousand.
The Parliamentary Budget Office, said this has resulted from the eligibility criteria change which tests whether a person can do any work rather than reviewing a medical diagnosis.
If the trend continues, the federal government is set to save $4.8 billion over the next ten years.