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

Submission 2373

Dear Committee,

My name is and I am 18 years old. I am writing about my sister, who is 23 and has a severe intellectual disability. She is non-verbal, incontinent, and needs support with basically every part of her day. She is also an NDIS participant.

I am writing about the proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026. I understand the NDIS needs to be financially sustainable, and I get why keeping costs under control matters. But I have real concerns about part of this Bill and I feel like I need to say something.

I think proposed section 34A should be removed from the Bill.

The way I read it, this Bill would give the Minister really sweeping powers to cut funding for specific groups of NDIS participants through support determinations.

I’m worried about this because:

• there are very few legal safeguards built in;
• cuts could be applied to whole categories of people at once;
• funding could be cut to below what the supports actually cost; and
• there’s not enough transparency or accountability in how decisions would be made.

This means there’s a real chance that big cuts could end up targeting specific groups of people — based on their disability type, age, or the kind of support they need.

Section 34A as proposed would create a pretty extreme power to apply blanket percentage cuts to funding in older plans — all in the name of financial sustainability — without needing to:

• reassess what each individual person actually needs;
• think about whether cuts would put people at risk;
• look at how cuts would affect someone’s ability to function day to day; or
• actually work out what harm those funding cuts might cause.

That feels like it goes against what the NDIS is supposed to be about — supporting people based on their individual needs, not just making broad financial cuts.

A blanked cut like this could seriously disrupt supports that people rely on every single day — things like therapy, community activities, assistive technology, and home modifications.

People need to keep receiving community participation funding that actually matches what they need. For someone like my sister, with a severe intellectual disability, that means one-to-one support — not just for her wellbeing, but for the safety of the people helping her too.

If her funding gets cut, she’d have to go to her day program less often. My sister loves being around people — she’s genuinely one of the most social people I know — but she needs

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

Submission 2373

support to make that happen. Less funding would mean more time stuck at home, and it would pile even more pressure onto our parents, who already do so much for her every day — things like bathing her, preparing her meals, keeping her safe, and taking her out.

I’m asking that the Bill be changed so that people with moderate, severe, or profound disability are protected from these kinds of cuts.

Cutting community participation funding for people with significant disability would mean locking them out of community life — leaving them isolated at home with fewer connections and less independence.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. It means a lot to me that I can have a say in something that affects my sister’s life so directly.