A police taskforce will be established to target organised crime groups allegedly intimidating and exploiting disability scheme participants and defrauding billions of dollars from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
"They may think they're tough, some of these organised crime people. They may boast amongst themselves how clever they are.
"The rest of Australia despises this. And what we're going to do is make sure that the NDIS is only for the people who need it."He said he suspected there was exploitation and coercion by criminal gangs, but also that there may be people unconnected to organised crime who were padding bills and "robbing the scheme".
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten is deriding the 'cowards' exploiting the most-vulnerable members of the community. The minister said there must be more due diligence on the invoices of people claiming to have provided services. "It's a mystery to me why different parts of government don't talk to each other better … I'm not satisfied there is sufficient communication between the National Disability Insurance Agency, the tax office, policing. It shouldn't be this way, but it is," Mr Shorten told ABC Radio.
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