National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Bill

Submission on the NDIS Amendment Bill

Name: redacted

My main concern about this Bill: This Bill does not reflect the reality of disability and complex support needs. Many disabled persons live with multiple disabilities that interact with each other and affect every aspect daily. The proposed changes appear standardize towards an all-one size fits approach which doesn’t work for those whose needs individualized deeply connected environment, culture health & support systems. Punishing being “not contactable” ignores realty disability crisis.

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

Submission 1758

wraparound support.

Concerns about Proposed Changes:

The proposal to fund one approved “primary disability” ignores complex overlapping disabilities,

can lead decision-making through automated processes removing human understanding flexibility; supports may pause if someone considered “not contactable” during crisis or hospitalization; application processing times extended from 21 days up to a month-long delay affecting urgent needs; reduced reassessment plan review flexibilities especially in crises changing circumstances; requirements exhaust all treatments before accessing support unfairly disadvantage those conditions poorly understood difficult treat lifelong. Accessible pathways must remain available for reviews re-assessments disputes ensuring decisions fair unsafe. Human oversight individualized care central to NDIs. Disabled people deserve dignified safe flexible supports reflecting actual lives.