The National Disability Insurance Agency is spending $4 million a month on high-powered lawyers as participants challenge funding cuts.
The agency administering the National Disability Insurance Scheme has racked up more than $40 million in legal fees over the first 10 months of the year, after a quadrupling in the number of cases before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
“While there must be full rights to appeal, it is critical that we improve processes to ensure early and fair resolution, before people with disability have no option but to take matters to court,” he toldResponses to a question on notice from outgoing Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff, released last week, show a surge in taxpayer-funded legal spending by the NDIA, which isIn the first 10 months of the current financial year, the NDIA spent $41.4 million – or $4.
“The average cut is 4 per cent. But some people have had huge cuts – I know of people who’ve had 40 and 50 per cent cuts to their plans,” Mr Innes told the“So inevitably, people are going to seek to have that reviewed, and the only mechanism to have it reviewed is the AAT.”introduced before the AAT, and said the existing appeals process favoured the NDIA.
The average NDIS participant receives a payment of $55,200, with the figure increasing 10.8 per cent annually over the past three years.
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