Submission No 54
INQUIRY INTO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME AND THE PROVISION OF DISABILITY SERVICES IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Name: Name suppressed Date Received: 10 July 2018
Partially Confidential
I had to fight for my early intervention NDIS package. I wasn’t notified until a month after it had been approved that it was ready to use, so I only have 11 months of use. It took another month or more to set up a Support Co-ordinator as NDIS messed up by sending the request to someone who wasn’t approved to be doing the Support Co-ordination and had to wait for another approval. Meanwhile I still had no support and had been without any support for 5 months after my ADHC funding ceased. I was never transitioned across despite receiving a letter from NDIS that I would be. I will have to reapply again at the end of this year as I’m not a fully funded client. My Support Co-ordinator told me that early intervention was only for children, but I am 61 years old. Things are not getting better, they are getting worse as I age, so I’m not sure why I was only offered this, but at least this is better than nothing, which is what I had after they didn’t transition me across as I was told.