I should add: the reason that will occur is because they will downgrade his current impairment level as he can operate in society. When on pensions you can work upto 8 hours a week, but that is once on them. If you looking at payouts or the like, basically you can undo yourself very easily by giving them any reason to downgrade current levels of impairment, which then puts the onus back upon you in order to prove otherwise.

I think you only need think back to Townsville, soldiers who are denied pensions solely because they said something like, "I have some backpain" upon their discharge medical. DVA and MCRS use that immediately to dismiss their applications as they can then say that their back injury is what stops them working, not any mental disorder. You know that from your own experiences their that it is the facts. Legal is one thing, but you have to then fight them and prove it, just as they made Herb do, and he lost... as most do who take on the system after the fact. Your better off to do all the right things until you have the money, have the pieces of paper from them acknowledging your impairment, then you can do as you like and they cannot deny their own acknowledgement then at any legal stance.