Submission No 67
INQUIRY INTO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME AND THE PROVISION OF DISABILITY SERVICES IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Name: Mrs Sharon James Date Received: 11 July 2018
there is no choice and control when i have had to wait 19 months and still waiting for ndis to put extension on too our small three bedroom home. I told ndis they could approve this at any time but they told me the tribunal had to hand it down I had a two day hearing and the first day NDIS said they would put the room on. This has cost barristers solicitors for something that should not happen. This was handed down in may and it is now july and still waiting funding. The sad part about this is that NDIS don’t listen as I have been living in a wheelchair with no access to bedroom toilet and bathroom. I was sleeping in my wheelchair which gave me problems with my feet. I had to buy a recliner lifter chair to sleep in and still waiting for NDIS to refund me the money back. In the last 19 months the lyres that i have been told. My portal the ndis keep reseting and removing funding from it I do have all the paperwork where this has been done. what i have seen they reset the portal and it is changing figures on plans that are out of date. This is open to fraud as I can tell you where all my funding has gone but NDIS cannot tell me where the funds they removed had gone was told it was put back into the pool.NDIS need to be made accountable for the funds and should they remove funds write and let the person know. I have written to malcom and other ministeres and no body cares less . I would not like to be the auditers for this as what i can see no body will know where the money has gone. I have also got letters from staff signing of as tim and next letter timothy. This is a government department so why are staff being able to do this.