“They made the restriction not whether you had your disability before the age of 65, but what age you were when you applied,” Mr Freckleton said.
“There are various forms of equipment and so on that you need, but once you have those … you can carry on living quite well and contributing, but to deprive people of that just randomly because of their birthday is what I call a calendar crime.”
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- Aged care, Discrimination, NDIS
- Author:
- SBS News
- Source:
- Jessica Bahr
- Date published:
- Fri 23rd Sep, 2022