Bill Shorten has asked for a review of the $30 billion disability scheme that has allowed 123,000 providers to remain unregistered and unregulated.
The federal government is reviewing a major loophole that has allowed 90 per cent of National Disability Insurance Scheme providers to be unregistered, largely avoiding safety and quality requirements and exposing the $30 billion scheme to fraud and scams.
Registration is meant to provide assurance to participants that providers’ services and supports meet the level of quality and safety stated in theBut apart from high-risk services, registration remains optional for the more than 136,000 operators who provided $27.6 billion of services to more than 534,000 seriously disabled people last financial year.
Providers opt in to be registered, but many have been deterred by the high cost of compliance for the complex scheme. They said it was not uncommon to spend 5 to 10 per cent of annual operating budget on staff and compliance activities that involved interpretation, compliance, reporting and auditing.‘Fleecing the scheme’The new NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, has asked the scheme’s commissioner for advice on how registration might be developed to improve quality and safety.
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