The Department of Social Services (DSS) has reviewed the Tables for the Assessment of Work-related Impairment for Disability Support Pension (DSP). The new DSP impairment tables will take effect from 1 April. 

The new tables adopt a functional-based assessment of a person’s ability to work, instead of the previous diagnosis-based assessment. The number of tables has been reduced from 22 to 15. A proposal to remove Table Six – ‘Functioning related to Alcohol, Drug and Other Substance Use’ – has been reversed by the Commonwealth Government.