He said the real issue was the DSP had become a "set and forget" payment even though some people receiving it may have some capacity to work.
"The DSP is not a set and forget payment, and we have tightened compliance and enforcement measures so taxpayers can have greater confidence in our welfare safety net," he said in a statement earlier this week.
Perhaps you realized you made a mistake, forgot payment or Form W-2, or left off the income from a Form 1099 you found in the bottom of a drawer.
There's all this talk about whether the DSP is a "set and forget" payment.
The social services minister, Kevin Andrews, has repeatedly called the DSP a set-and-forget payment, but he would not put a figure on the number of people who could lose the disability pension and be moved onto unemployment benefits.
Anonymous Listen, if you happen to be a Rockefeller (but not the fake one convicted recently) or an Astor (but not the stepson on trial), forget the payment.
And don't forget the payment.
Over the decades I have forgotten about delayed payments from insurance companies, arguments about fee schedules, tortured reasoning from administrators, disputes with my associates.
Online billing and auto-pay are sound options in order to prevent lost or forgotten bills and payments while you transition.
It may be easier than you think to miss a subscription payment you've forgotten about, or, even worse, have an old payment on a bank account you think you've closed which may be racking up unauthorised charges.
In 1843, he wrote: 'We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.' Now, 165 years on, we are painfully relearning that lesson.
