Fewer people on disability support pension
AAP
Thousands of people are no longer receiving the disability support pension.
Under tighter new rules forcing claimants to undertake some form of work, the number of people receiving the $788 fortnightly payment dropped by about 16,000 last financial year.
Taxpayers forked out $16.5 billion to support about 814,000 people on the pension, slightly above the previous year's figures, data from Department of Social Services annual report shows.
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