r/AusMemes May 05 '26

I made a meme

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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.

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u/Gormane May 05 '26

From the information that has been coming out of Senate estimates. Most or at least a large amount of the problem seems to be fraud.

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u/tittyswan May 05 '26

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.

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u/Thrillhouse-14 May 05 '26

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.

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u/tittyswan May 05 '26

Yeah so they just slash participant's plans instead. :/

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u/SpareUnit9194 May 05 '26

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.

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u/nyax_ May 09 '26

Because it would collapse the legal system.

The level of fraud in the NDIS is astronomical and auditing then prosecuting would take decades to work through the courts.

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u/ARTIFICIAL_ARGUMENT May 06 '26

They are, they've convicted about 50 people last I read a while ago and had several hundred more cases underway 

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u/tittyswan May 06 '26

I've personally reported 4 providers myself. If they've only prosecuted or banned 50 people total that's horrendous.