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

Submission 1812

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

Submission

by: nominee for NDS participant Address: private Mobile Phone: private Date: 27 May 2026 Community Affairs Legislation Committee Dear Committee Members In the following, my stance towards some items of the NDIS bill currently presented to the Australian Parliament. Section 34 A #1 The Minister can flat-rate cut everyone’s plans by instrument with no review option. The first cut is 50% of a participant’s current budget for community participation. Phased in from the 1st of October this year. The bill is written so that the power can apply to any support category at any percentage cut in the future. Reductions in funding are not reviewable decisions. My son is 27 years old young man, NDIS participant since 2018, nonverbal, autistic, hyperactive, with reduced communication skills. He spends most of his NDIS core budget on community participation; going to public parks, public swimming pools and other sports activities, travelling in and outside the city, visiting community centres and participating in community activities. This helped him a lot in his physical and mental development. I am an ageing man who can not anymore take my grown-up special need son to community participation as I did ten years ago. Time counts and age implies many restrictions. Now with the currently suggested reduction of the NDIS budget for community integration (the Bill) down to 50% this young man will be forced to stay at home in his bed most of his time. This is quite detrimental for his mental and physical health. I find this unfair and unjustified treatment for the young man and other similar cases. The arbitrary reduction will destroy all what we have achieved in the past decades and will undermine his mental and physical wellbeing. The bill budget reduction will transform this young generation into a load on the society and on the health system in Australia with long-term unnecessary damage.

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

Submission 1812

#2 The minister can cap any support for any group of participants at anytime. The Minister can decide by legislative instrument the maximum amount of funding for any particular support or class of supports. This might imply fund up to 12 hours of speech therapy per year for anyone or for any particular cohort. This could apply to participants generally or to class participants.

Back to my son, he was, with lots of hope and effort, participating in 1-hour weekly sessions of speech and communication therapy; something that helped him a lot building communication skills. Those are redacted+ hours a year an essential part for his personal development. This is seen again as detrimental move hindering development of this young generation.

Similarly, my son and the family were planning with passion and ambition RESPITE or short-term accommodation for the special son. If this gets cut or dramatically reduced through the Bill, this will put the whole family in big unnecessary trouble.

#3 Your plan can be suspended and then revoked if the agency can’t get hold of you. Sections 40 A and 31 A, the bill let’s the CEO suspend your plan after reasonable attempts, and it does not define reasonable attempts nor the time frame for reasonable attempts. There is nothing in the legislation that puts a timeframe on that. That suspension is an unappealable decision. So if you are suspended, you can’t go back in and ask for a review of that decision.

Also, if they can’t reach you and they are asking you for evidence or documents to prove certain claims, there are expected civil penalties. There’s penalty units in today’s dollars for failing to comply with the CEO request for information. The current bill will only protect you from infringement notices, compliant notices, and enforceable undertakings, but they don’t protect you from a direct civil penalty order. if you don’t respond to information request that puts you at financial risk and a financial exposure.

#4 Eligibility itself is changing now to functional capacity. So it’s how you would function without any of the supports and services around you. The new definition of functional capacity introduced in this measure will apply to all current participants as well as anyone who applied to the NDIS previously or applies in the future. This means that the scheme will be significantly reduced.

#5 Schedule five of the bill gives the minister the power to make transitional rules for the next 12 months that can literally change how the NDIS Work Act works. Mandatory consultation without community; and an impact statement before any rules are made.

NDIS Nominee (private) for participant (private) Address: redacted Mobile Phone: redacted Email: redacted