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

Submission 2165

I am a 38 year old NDIS participant and have been in the scheme since 2022. I also have a child that is part of the NDIS scheme. Through reading the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, I would like to share my experience and how the changes in the bill may affect my family.

One of the things that will impact my family and I is having the limitation of funding on the necessary services that we used. An example is the speech therapy, Occupational therapy and physiotherapy. The prices of the services are very high and if the bill follows through, the caps on the funding will barely be enough to cover a small portion of the prices of the services.

Currently there is 21 days for NDIS agency to take action to reassess the NDIS plan and we are allow to appeal to it. However, in the proposes bill 2026, it states that it will take 91 days and there will be no appeal rights. I disagree as they should update us on there process and allow us to speed up the process based on the urgency and the risk of harm of the case.

The eligibly reducing the expected participations from 900 000 to 300 000 by 2030. This will impact me and my family but not the providers. There is no third party (independent ) to oversee the NDIS providers or proper audit. Thus, I want an independent third party organisation other than the NDIS commissioner to supervise the audit, regulate and improve the standards of the services of the providers.

The proposed bill should be limited to not only the participants but also to the providers. This is because it is unfair to the participants and it won’t meet the purpose of this bill.