National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 1388 - Supplementary Submission

NDIS Bill 2026: Why this Bill is high-risk in practice

Regional provider, carer and lived-experience perspective Prepared by Jessica Schafer-Wilson Heart Worx May 2026

Who is raising this

I am writing as a regional NDIS provider, practitioner, carer person with lived experience of disability-related functional impairment. This perspective sits across provider operations, lived experience, regional delivery, carer systems psychosocial complexity review realities.I support genuine NDIS reform Fraud should be addressed Poor providers should be removed The Scheme needs stronger administration clearer accountability.The concern not stated intention Reform It how likely to behave once it hits real-world systems already under pressure.

Core Concern

Before Parliament accepts further participant-level restrictions Government NDIA show full balance sheet.Public debate keeps focusing on participant spending Is cost clear same clarity administrative failure burden delay downstream transfer.

Three implementation risks

Hidden Administrative Cost Oversight material Ombudsman ANAO ART Legal Aid shows delays complaints reassessment pressure review burden legal costs around decision-making appeals.Parliament require clearer reporting on delay complaint burden ART/legal costs internal outcomes overturned conceded decisions.##### Regional markets can lose choice fast Regional NDIS do operate like metropolitan markets Provider exit travel restriction pricing change claim risk practical choices altogether.###### Savings become cost transfers If supports reduced mainstream foundational operating need shifts unpaid care family systems hospitals housing aid crisis responses instability.

What I asking for

• Do Bill current form.
• Require staged evaluation October 2024 reforms before further restrict commence Protect participant choice rights capacity safeguards privacy oversight community participation Region impact assessment and viability safeguard Set limits executive-made Rules automated debt recovery digital payment system.

Why Staged Evaluation Matters

The NDIS materially tightened since Oct 2024 stricter support definitions, spending rules funding periods claims controls increased integrity activity System undergoing substantial operational behavioural changes That makes staged evaluation more important not less. Why this matters fiscally These simple savings They are cost unless proper modelling first Commonwealth saving automatically national if shifted into families hospital unpaid care review systems provider collapse workforce exits. Final position The concern whether the NDIS should change It is Parliament being asked approve further restrictions real-world consequences existing have been properly measured Prepared by Jessica Schafer-Wilson Co-Founder Practice Lead NDIS Systems Recovery & Lived Experience Heart Worx Tamworth NSW One-page MP brief