‘Bureaucratic nightmare’: NDIS putting lives at risk, say advocacy groups | smh_andrew
The National Disability Insurance Scheme is turning into a “bureaucratic nightmare” that is failing to meet the needs of many of its clients, disability advocacy groups say.
“In some cases, it puts lives at risk if they do not take on the review and appeals process,” she said. “In others it means people go without – without daily care or support, without the proper, individualised equipment they need – risking illness or injury.” “It’s a culture of cost-cutting in addition to staff not having a background or lived experience of living with disability.”revelations that dozens of lawyers have quit the agency that runs the NDISAs many as 40 legal officers have quit the agency over the past eight months, and there were 14 vacancies in the branch dealing with tribunal appeals at the end of February.
People with disabilities can appeal decisions to reject them from entering the scheme or to cut their existing plans.
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