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The Greens senator, Jordon Steele-John, has responded to Labor’s plans to use $14.4bn in savings from curbing NDIS growth over the next four years to fund other key federal budget measures. The NDIS actuary in December 2023 estimated the scheme’s payments would increase by $15.9bn from 2023-24 to 2027-28 but with government intervention, that figure will reduce by $14.4bn over the next four years, bringing the increase down to just $1.5bn.
The savings, revealed in last night’s federal budget, will come from changes proposed in a bill introduced in March that will allow tweaks to rules targeting plan inflation, clarifying entry pathways for the scheme, and how funding can be used. The papers show funding for the scheme will still increase from $44.3bn in 2023-24 to $60.7bn by 2027-28.
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