Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says the Labor government must control spending on the $50-billion-a-year National Disability Insurance Scheme or public support for the program could be lost.
Senator Gallagher has close ties to the disability community. She has previously publicly said she is blessed to have a daughter with autism, and she was minister for disability and community services in the Australian Capital Territory government before becoming chief minister.“When this scheme was created, there was clearly unmet need,” he said.
As at June 2022, there were 534,655 NDIS participants, with the final annual financial sustainability report projecting this number to increase to 670,000 by June 2025 and almost 860,000 by June 2030.“It’s really assurance and making sure everything’s been done to manage the expenditure is actually going to the people who need it,” Senator Gallagher said.“Because we want people to have services, we want to make sure that they’ve been delivered in a cost-effective way,” Senator Gallagher said.
A decade ago, when the NDIS was conceived by the Gillard government and then implemented by the Abbott government in 2013, the Productivity Commission estimated it would cover 411,000 participants and cost $13.6 billion at maturity.
NDIS SenKatyG Why is it that book keepers working as plan managers, can earn CEO salaries, working a few days a week. Most of their work could quite easily be automated, digitised, in fact, it’s not that hard.
Huge amounts of waste, greed and outright fraud limiting the access to those deserving of support.
It’s already lost. 30% of the people on it are ‘disabled’ due to choice. Once on , never off. Let’s fix this. Let’s build a sovereign productive sustainable competitive economy with Australians at the core of what we do
Too late.
Rorts by some dodgy operators!
From some of what I’ve seen. Holidays paid for through this system is a rort. Fair enough if used to help with chores and activities of daily living.
Bill wanted it to be on demand Even gold plated wheelchair