Claire Moore Queensland, Australian Labor Party
2:39 pm
My question is to Senator Kemp, Minister representing the Minister for Human Services. Is the minister aware of reports in the Sydney Morning Herald that last weekend the parents of a four-year-old boy with cancer and a congenital heart malformation were denied eligibility for carer payment because the child did not meet the government’s medical criteria? Isn’t the boy so ill that he is undergoing chemotherapy? Hasn’t a senior Centrelink official noted that the case highlights a need to change the assessment criteria for carer payment? What action has been taken to assist the family? And can the minister give a commitment that the criteria will be changed to provide support for parents who have no choice but to stay at home to care for seriously ill children?
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