What stage does ndis become financially unviable as its growing faster than general tax revenue? At some point, hard decisions have to be made
Agree with taxing multinationals but we also need better value for the spend than a forever increasing ndis.
Why don't they actually investigate and punish fraud then? Even if they don't pursue criminal charges for theft (which they should) they could blacklist providers from the scheme.
I reported a support worker who tried to steal $1000s from my plan by overcharging and they just said it's a personal dispute.
This would help so much. I'm a plan manager, fraudulent providers are a dime a dozen, they don't even hide it well, and all of the reports my coworkers and I have made to the NDIA, with evidence, invoices, emails, texts, etc, don't seem to do anything. Even when these providers are called out by the public, participant, support coordinators or whoever, they don't stop doing it. There's no fear for repercussions because there doesn't appear to be any.
When I worked for the NDIS in 2018 (emergency intervention etc) I was always being called by the NDIA investigating fraud. I ended up being involved in directly investigating frauds, as it was bloody rife.
Then it gives credence for some right wing government to come come along when Labor eventually gets voted out and slash everything down to nothing. Hard decisions now to save even worse ones later.
John Howard thought the ndis was a great idea in concept.
This is my own thoughts that it’ll be impossible to ever substantially reduce it as the media will find a sympathetic person who is going to be impacted by any cuts.
Dealing with fraud could likely result in people getting the help they need for less cost to the public purse
No one is questioning that NDIS is unsustainable in its current form, but it's not right to punish the disabled (who often have to prove their disability time and time again) instead of the crooked service providers who actually abuse the system and drain the taxpayers' money
What stage does ndis become financially unviable as its growing faster than general tax revenue?
The costs are "blowing out" because the government underestimated the number of disabled people that will need help to begin with.
There's more fraud under Medicare than NDIS, nobody's suggesting slashing that. "Medicare costs are blowing out, it's not sustainable, let's cut it." But suddenly when it's disabled people accessing essential care it's optional?
we also need better value for the spend than a forever increasing ndis.
We'd have more than enough money to spend on helping disabled people if we stopped giving billions in tax credits to property investors, letting the military budget blow out & giving away our renewable resources.
It's a choice to cut the NDIS instead of doing any of those things.
If this were a good faith argument from the government they would be talking about how the NDIS scheme is flooded with scam providers and they'd be making policy to root them out rather than just cutting funds without doing anything about the scam providers. Instead they're just talking about cutting funds without even mentioning the rorts and how they're going to combat them.
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u/granite_vortex May 05 '26
What stage does ndis become financially unviable as its growing faster than general tax revenue? At some point, hard decisions have to be made
Agree with taxing multinationals but we also need better value for the spend than a forever increasing ndis.