People with migraine on DSP
Dear Department of Human Services,
I would like to know how many people disabled by migraine are currently in receipt of Disability Support Pension.
Please provide any document or documents that detail the number of people with Migraine listed as their disability or illness, currently in receipt any Centrelink benefit, broken down by type of benefit. If the document can indicate the percentage of DSP or Centrelink clients affected by migraine, or if additional documents (such as the entire number of clients) can be provided in order that we can calculate percentages, that would also be very useful.
If such a document does not exist, please provide any document you have (if any) that indicates the prevalence of migraine among Centrelink clients.
Note I am only looking for numbers (in order to try and calculate fiscal impact of new migraine prevention drugs currently being blocked by PBAC), not the personal details of any Centrelink client.
Yours faithfully,
RK Crosby
Dear RK Crosby
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982.
Regards
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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Dear RK Crosby
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Robert
Freedom of Information Practitioner
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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Dear RK Crosby
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request under the
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Kind regards
Robert
Freedom of Information Practitioner
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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Dear Department of Human Services,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Human Services's handling of my FOI request 'People with migraine on DSP'.
Thank you for the information about people with migraine on DSP, this is useful information. I appreciate that was the title of the request, but the wording of the request asked for any Centrelink benefit. We have a significant belief that people with migraine who would otherwise be entitled to DSP are on Newstart long term or other benefits, providing repeated medical certificates for years to obtain exemptions from participation requirements, because of the social stigma that migraine is 'just a headache'.
If you are unable to gather medical condition information for other benefits, that's fine, just let me know. (However, we are requesting a parliamentary inquiry into the burden of migraine, so you may need to deliver this information to the Minister or relevant Committee in the near future anyway.)
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/p...
Yours faithfully,
RK Crosby
Dear RK Crosby
Please find enclosed correspondence relating to your FOI request.
Kind regards
Authorised FOI Decision Maker
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
Email: [email address]
Dear Ms Crosby
Please find a decision in relation to your request for internal review.
Please let us know whether you require another copy of the document
(provided to you on 24 September 2019 – LEX 46629).
Regards
Kate
Authorised FOI Decision Maker
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
Email: [email address]
Dear Department of Human Services,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Human Services's handling of my FOI request 'People with migraine on DSP'.
The response to the review request claimed the information not provided in the first response does not exist (specifically numbers of people on benefits other than DSP affected by migraine). You have provided this information to Deloitte Access Economics, as cited in their White Paper on migraine published in November 2018, so it clearly does exist. Would you like to try again?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/p...
Yours faithfully,
RK Crosby
Dear RK Crosby
Please find attached correspondence.
Regards
Freedom of Information Team
Employment Law and Freedom of Information Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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Stephanie Johnson left an annotation ()
Hi RK,
Just trying to help out, but it looks like the issue you might have with this request is that you have asked for the information from the wrong department. The Deloitte Access Economics White Paper says "A special data request was submitted to DSS to obtain information...".
DSS is the Department of Social Services. You have made your request to the Department of Human Services. You may have more success with the Department of Social Services as they had the data available to hand over.
Good luck
Steph