Labor has vowed to crack down on providers overcharging for services, clear the backlog of thousands of legal appeals and deliver COVID-19 booster shots to people with disability. auspol NDIS
Labor has vowed to crack down on providers overcharging for services claimed on the National Disability Insurance Scheme as well as clear the backlog of thousands of legal appeals for funding, while delivering COVID-19 booster shots to people with disability.
In an exclusive interview, Shorten said it was an obscenity that there were some 5000 appeals of NDIS packages before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The number of appeals to NDIA decisions that make it to the tribunal has more than doubled over the past year and legal costs are running at tens of millions of dollars.
Making sure people with disabilities – both NDIS participants and those on disability support pensions – have quick access to their third and fourth COVID boosters is also a top priority for the new minister.