Kelly’s jobseeker payments were cut off during a hospital stay for psychosis. It’s far from an isolated case | Centrelink

Kelly was sitting up in her hospital bed. Through the haze of heavy medication, she was trying to tell the woman at the end of the phone line – an officer at Centrelink – what had happened. On 26 March, the 43-year-old had started experiencing psychosis and two weeks later, on 8 April, she…