People with high-value NDIS plans are being bribed with fast food, kidnapped and having their funding drained by providers, a bombshell report says.
People with high-value National Disability Insurance Scheme plans are being "kidnapped" and having their funding drained by providers that are supposed to help them live better lives, a bombshell report says.A report says people living with disability have been abused and exploited in multiple Victorian boarding houses
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten said the report came about after meetings with whistleblowers, and he suspected similar abuses were happening across the country."But there is no doubt that in the last number of years, the neglect and oversight of the system has seen vulnerable people with lucrative support packages fall through the cracks, and effectively be human trafficked.
"As a number of SRS facilities were closed, residents either disappeared … or were taken from facilities, often at night, and deposited into alternative accommodation," she said. There is a "growing trend of predatory companies utilising Supported Independent Living resources to increase their income revenue", including some that "collect residents, take them to undisclosed locations and siphon the funding from their packages"
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