Plan to move 240,000 people off scheme leads states and territories to jointly warn they can’t ‘deliver like-for-like services to people who are exited from the NDIS’
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State and territory disability ministers have rung alarm bells over the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of the NDIS, warning they can’t deliver “like-for-like services” for more than 200,000 participants expected to be shifted off the scheme by 2031.
The Albanese government’s national disability insurance scheme bill is designed to dramatically curb the growth of the $50bn-a-year scheme by first reducing budgets and then the number of people who can access it from 2028.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/11/ndis-disabilities-overhaul-hospital-australia
Author : Sarah Basford Canales, Dan Jervis-Bardy and Caitlin Cassidy
Publish date : 2026-06-11 02:18:00
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