Disability pension rules leave thousands with cancer on $44 a day

Patients left languishing on jobseeker until disease is ‘fully treated’ – and diagnosis is terminal

It took the worst of days for Lynette Penfold to get some good news from Centrelink.

The 65-year-old was told last year that her cancer had spread and she had two years to live.

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