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Disability advocates are questioning where the thousands of National Disability Insurance Scheme participants set to be cut will go.
Reporting by Shannon Kirkwood.
Disability advocates are questioning where the thousands of National Disability Insurance Scheme participants set to be cut will go.
Tightening eligibility rules, more foundational supports programs and a crackdown on service provider registrations, are among the changes announced by the Health Minister Mark Butler today.
The number of participants in the scheme is to be reduced by up to 160 thousand and Minister BUTLER says there will be a re-assessment for participants from 2028.
People With Disability Australia's Megan Spindler-Smith outlines the importance of consultation with people with disability.
This is about our lives. We need to be at the core of these decisions. We need to be the ones helping to make sure that any decision made doesn't put us behind or others us and pushes us out of the community.
Megan Spindler-Smith
Shadow Minister for NDIS Melissa McIntosh says has described the changes as a bombshell for people with disability - she says the main focus must be on shonky providers.
The government doesn't want to work with us. They'll ram it through the parliament. They'll cut those plans, and they've left every single person with a disability in this country with high anxiety today.
Melissa McIntosh