Legislated income and employment support program for people with disabilities is Disability Support Program "fulfils the government's commitment to move people with disabilities off the welfare system." Key features of the program include:

• Removing the label "permanently unemployable" to recognize that many people with disabilities can and do want to work
• Using a new definition of disability that recognizes fluctuating or cyclical medical conditions, and functional restrictions in activities of daily living
• Reinstating disability benefits if a job attempt fails
• No longer requiring people with disabilities to go through eligibility re-testing every one or two years, except in cases where their condition is expected to improve
• Allowing people with disabilities to keep more of their liquid assets and compensation awards, and providing a higher limit on the value of life insurance policies
• Allowing people with disabilities to benefit more from gifts and inheritances so that families can provide a more secure future for their adult children.

Support Program also includes employment supports to help people with disabilities prepare for, obtain or maintain employment. These include:

• Employment planning assistance
• Individualized supports to job seekers with disabilities
• Technological aids and devices, and human supports
• Pre-employment services
• Time-limited job supports
• Innovative employment strategies

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