State and territory leaders have banded together to warn that Australians with a disability will be worse off unless the NDIS minister slows his plans to clamp down on the $44 billion program.
State premiers have accused Bill Shorten of making hasty changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, warning that Australians with a disability will be worse off unless he slows his plans to clamp down on the $44 billion program.
“We are deeply concerned that this way of going about the reform – including through this bill – will lead to worse outcomes for more Australians with disability and their families.”Some of the major changes include requiring participants to complete a needs-based assessment that calculates their plan budgets with a new methodology. People will then receive a capped budget that lasts up to five years but has strict limits on how much funding can be spent annually.
“If we don’t do this carefully, and in tandem with broader improvements to the disability ecosystem, people with disability will end up in our hospitals or other settings that are unsuitable for their needs,” they said. The premiers said they were surprised that Shorten had sought to make legislative changes that narrowed the scheme’s scope before the new foundational support system had been created.
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