Acknowledgements endorsements Background methodology executive Summary 11 Recommendations 22 Article — general obligations 38

Lack of Measures Taken to Recognise the Connection between Poverty and Disability

529. 
     In Australia, very few studies have measured the connection between disability and poverty. One study that has been published by the Social Policy Research Centre⁶⁰⁴ makes a link between the incidence of disability and the risk of poverty and actual hardship.⁶⁰⁵ Further statistical information in this area is required in order to ensure that government programs are achieving the outcomes envisaged by Article 28.
     
530. 
     There is no recognition of the cost of disability to the individual. This is compounded by the inability to afford disability services.