The Australian: Decline in men on disability pension [July 19, 2005]

Howard tells more porkies

David Uren, Economics correspondent
July 19, 2005

THE number of men claiming disability pensions has stopped growing for the first time in 20 years, but this has been offset by a surge in the number of claims from older women.

Research by the federal parliamentary library disproves a widely held belief that the meteoric growth in disability pensions has been driven by older men dropping out of the workforce before they were eligible for the old age pension.

The portion of men aged 60 to 64 on the disability pension has dropped from 25.3 to 21.5 per cent over the past seven years, while the number of men aged 50 to 59 on the disability pension has fallen from 11.5 to 10.2 per cent."

Comment

Just goes to show that the government's comments about DSP are fiction. And why are there more women? Probably because as women have entered the work force, they experience the poor conditions, and unhealthy demands pushed by a "productivity culture".