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Centrelink
Money
Parents with disability
School – disability
Wills
Disability Support Pension
This page provides information about the Disability Support Pension (DSP), a payment provided by Centrelink to people who have a condition that stops them from working or who are permanently blind.
Money
Financial arrangements – making changes.
With some exceptions, the law protects each person’s right to make their own financial arrangements, without other people being involved.
Fines fact sheet
If a person with intellectual disability has fines they can’t pay, or they are accumulating fines for behaviour attributable to their disability (e.g. forgetting to take their monthly train pass), or there are grounds to appeal a fine (e.g. a good explanation), there are practical things that they can do.
Parents with disability
Factsheets to support parents with disability.
- Are Family and Community Services worried about your child?
- Working with Family and Community Services to keep your child safe
- Is community services going to take your child off you
- Your child has been removed what happens next
- If your child has been taken away you need a lawyer
- Contact – seeing your child
- About the children’s court – general information
- Your first day at court
School – disability
Learning together: tools to help you get the support you need at school
A toolkit for students with disability and their families in NSW.
Wills
Wills fact sheet
Did you know that not everyone has to make a will? In fact, many people choose not to make a will. The decision is a personal and private one. Some people with intellectual disability can make a will.