NDIS Minister Bill Shorten promised people with a disability they will get the help they need, as he introduced significant new powers for the National Disability Insurance Agency.
The National Disability Insurance Agency will be able to remove children from the scheme if satisfied by evidence that early interventions have been successful, under new powers NDIS Minister Bill Shorten is seeking to reform the $42 billion program.
The scheme’s second structural problem is plan inflation, which means people’s budgets increase above indexation each year; the average NDIS participant budget grew at an annualised rate of 14.4 per cent in the second half of 2023.Shorten introduced new laws on Wednesday addressing both issues, promising they would be the first step in reforms that will deliver a more consistent and equitable scheme.
Under the reboot, people will have to complete a needs-based assessment and their budgets will be calculated with a new methodology. All 646,000 NDIS participants will move to those “new framework plans” within five years, although there is scope in the legislation to change that timeline. That list will soon be designed with people with disabilities and state and territory governments. But the document said it would exclude things such as holidays, groceries, utility bill payments, online gambling, perfume, cosmetics, standard household appliances and white goods.
That system will be “designed specifically to support children and their families who would benefit from early intervention to improve lifetime outcomes”, the document said.
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