Injured workers over 50 face 'scrapheap'

By Anna Patty, Workplace Editor
Updated September 23 2017 - 12:18am, first published September 22 2017 - 10:39pm
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - September 20, 2017: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SMH NEWS: 200917: Story by Anna Patty: Portrait of Shaun Toby at his Blue Mountains home. Shaun suffers chronic and intense pain and has been on workers comp for more than ten years.He is one of thousands (mostly men aged in their 50s) who will be cut off and forced onto welfare at the end of the year because of changes to the scheme to cut people off after five years. (Photo by James Alcock/Fairfax Media).
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - September 20, 2017: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SMH NEWS: 200917: Story by Anna Patty: Portrait of Shaun Toby at his Blue Mountains home. Shaun suffers chronic and intense pain and has been on workers comp for more than ten years.He is one of thousands (mostly men aged in their 50s) who will be cut off and forced onto welfare at the end of the year because of changes to the scheme to cut people off after five years. (Photo by James Alcock/Fairfax Media).

It won't be a very Merry Christmas for father of four Shaun Toby, or thousands of other injured workers who will lose their workers compensation payments at the end of the year.

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