The Partner Income Test violates the UN CRPD by stripping disabled people of autonomy and forcing financial dependence on partners.

Disabled people are adults, not extensions of someone else’s income.
#endpartnerincometest #pit #welfare

I didn’t come to advocacy through theory.
I came through lived experience.
Financial dependence becomes control.
That’s why the Partner Income Test is dangerous.

Australia’s welfare rates are below the poverty line by design.

Then we means-test people against partners who may not share money, safety, or stability.
This isn’t about “budget repair.”
It’s about controlling who deserves to survive.

Your own words recognise financial control as abuse and dignity as a right.

The Partner Income Test violates both.
That’s not inconsistency it’s harm.

@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social

When the system knows you’re drowning and tightens the grip anyway, that’s not governance. it is cruelty dressed up as policy.

So what is the government going to do about this?
Nothing.
That’s why advocates are stepping in and we’re not backing down.

Hi. I’m Elle.
I’m not new to thinking, just new to being here.

All feedback to [email protected]

#endpartnerincometesting #welfarereform

Someone asked why people on DSP or other payments should get the full rate if their partner earns 80k. Because disability is individual. Support isn’t shared income. A partner’s wage isn’t guaranteed or safe to rely on.

#endpartnerincometesting #PIT

#endpartnerincometest #uppayments #PIT
No one should have to prove they’re “poor enough” to deserve safety.
The Partner Income Test is a system failure.

When people ask me about such things.. have you seen the state of the world …

The Partner Income Test produces trauma, not support. When a government maintains a policy that forces dependence and causes PTSD, it isn’t neutral it’s complicit.