7377 (2025). Ricardo Menéndez March to the Minister for Social Development and Employment

7377 (2025). Ricardo Menéndez March to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: How many applications for the Supported Living Payment, if any, have been approved and declined in each quarter since January 2021, broken down by ethnicity, and reason for decline?

Hon Louise Upston: I refer the Member to the attached tables: • Table 1 provides the number of declines for working age Supported Living Payment benefit applications from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024 by quarter ending, total ethnicity response and decline reason. • Table 2 provides the number of grants for working age Supported Living Payment benefit applications from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024 by quarter ending and total ethnicity response.