Submission to the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Amendment (Securing the NDIS
for Future Generations) Bill \n\t
Attention:
Committee Secretary, Senate Standing Committee On Community Affairs
Submitted By Email: redacted
Date:\ntttt29/5/2026
i welcome the opportunity to make submission to Senate standing committee on community affairs about national disability insurance scheme amendment(Securing ndis future generations bill). i am care giver of nndis. it is not good enough because it has many problems.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Submission
The short timeline impacts me significantly as my family cannot properly understand how this bill will affect our access to necessary support.
Recommendation: Extend public consultations period at least one month longer than currently proposed.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment
Submission 1808
renewals without review rights (Part 5), and unreviewable funding reductions (Part 4), existing participants face narrower criteria with significantly fewer avenues to challenge decisions about their supports.
How this affects participants: This does not protect participants already on the NDIS, who could be reassessed under stricter rules. If someone’s funding is reduced or their plan renewed automatically, they may have limited or no ability to challenge that decision. This could make it harder for people to get extra support when their circumstances or disability change.
Recommendation: Require a “no harm” safeguard ensuring no current participant loses access to supports unless equivalent supports are in place, with independent review rights before any exit decision and access to unscheduled reassessments preserved.
Unreviewable ministerial power to cut funding across all support categories The Minister can reduce funding for any support or group of supports by a specified percentage through an instrument that cannot be challenged (Schedule 1 Part 4).This applies across all budget categories.Unspent funds will no longer carry over at plan renewal (Schedule 1 Part 5).
How this affects participants A participant’s community participation, capacity building or assistive technology funding could be cut without warning and without any right to appeal.Participants who save unspent funds across plan periods for high-cost items will lose that ability entirely.Recommendation: Require that unspent funds carry over at plan renewal for participants saving for high-cost items and require independent review rights before any funding reduction takes effect.
Requirement to exhaust treatment options before eligibility: The issue: A person with disability will need to exhaust treatment options before they can be eligible for the Scheme (Schedule 1 Part 8). There will also be removal of whole-of-person assessment replaced by single eligible impairment consideration.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment
(Schedule 1 Part 3)
Submission 1808
The note previously acknowledging environmental factors other ineligible impairments could affect support needs has been removed. The affected individuals are now expected to prove their condition cannot improve before accessing NDIS benefits under Schedule 1 part three, as supports would then solely evaluate against one eligible impairment rather than considering overall experience. Pursuing treatment exhaust requirements without safeguarding measures around participant harm due side effects complications financial ability geographic access treatments should also be avoided.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Submission
Submission: [1808]
Recommendation:
The recommendation states, do not proceed as I-CAN as functional capacity assessment tool unless it has been demonstrably validated. to identify necessary needs of all people w/ disability including those episodic fluctuating disabilities demonstrated culturally appropriate First Peoples with disabilitiies.
Supports cut before replacement system ready
The issue From October government announced funding social civic community participation supports will be reduced by per cent capacity building daily activities by percent reductions implemented through ministerial instrument power Schedule 4 The Foundational Support System intended fill gap no confirmed implementation date operational.
How this affects participants:
supports help connect build skills maintain independence may exist replace them leaving carers families greater responsibilities additional support often stay visible connected safe.
The Foundational Model Flawed Disabled do lose age Aged Care system specific needs targeted individualised support throughout lives.
The model does not work for children aged under years have developmental delays autism low moderate needs Autism is uniform Autistic people variety sensory and behavioral challenges incompatible others Forcing groups therapy wastes important time learn specifically unique challenges function world designed their needs. Thriving Kids especially disadvantages High Masking majority female children defer
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 1808 to any higher-needs children in their group.
Recommendation:
Require that no reductions to community participation or capacity building supports take effect until Foundational Supports are fully operational, adequately funded and demonstrably able to meet the needs of those who will lose NDIS supports.