National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2524
This Submission is for the Bill for the changes to NDIS review for 2026
My name is Merryn Young, I am currently on the NDIS and have been so for 5 years now. M The NDIS impending changes to the legislation and act will severaly effect my participation on the NDIS under Psychosocial Disabilities.
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My original access was granted under the diagnosis not impairments and since the change came with it going to impairments my plan has not reflected my needs and wants the were put into my plan. The idea now that it will be primarly on functional capacity has so many floors to it that I feel my primary diagnosis will again be ignored and my other disabilities will not be able to give me or renew or remain on the NDIS MUCH LONGER.
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I have never had a planning meeting to start with so how am i to believe that a change to the access and the following processes that you are wanting to implement will neither benefit or make my life any less beneificial than it is now being that i have had pretty much all of my funding for capital and core funding to assist with goals has been cut or diminished to the extent I don’t go out anywhere I don’t do anything because I dont have the funds now to do so anyway.
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My complaints to NDIS/NDIA have gone unheard and ignored. In what way would I trust that these new changes to be implemented wether I like them or not and find them acceptable will benefit me in any way whatsoever.
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In the beginning as pacticipants we were to be kept up to date with changes to our plan by our support cordinator or LAC. I have never had any contact with a LAC and nither has any of my SC and none have reached out to see if I needed any help with anything. Since 2017-current I have not had a LAC assigned to my case.
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The propsed cuts to NDIS will by no means be the number of people cut, as each 1 of us is a person with disabilities not a number or dollar sign that support providers can see how much they can get out each participant to keep themselves viable and present. Well what does that mean for each and every one of us that is treated this way completely ignoring our human rights to a fair and just life so that we can feel comfortable, safe, not stigmatised, valued, trusted, acknowledged, heard, validated, and above all treated like a human being.
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These preposed changes to the review, renew, access, transition out of NDIS with still support in place to cover that transition are simple ridiculous and we are not heard so it is very much a case of ‘not with us, but without us’, not the other way around. The statement put forward by so many service providers and NFP organisation was ‘with us, or not with out us’, it is sadning and disappointing that in this day and age we are just going backwards to a time where people with disabilities are ‘to be seen and heard’, put them in home, put them in institutions, put them in mental hospitals, put them in asylums. not good enough Australian Government this is crossing the line of human rights and moving right on The Geneva Convention.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2524
I write this in the hope that the Australian Government will wake up to themselves and do the right thing for once and deny these cuts, deny these bills, deny these Acts, deny these proprosed pieces of Legislation as none of it is representing the Disabilities people of Australia in any way shape or form. Do Better. Become that voice that says ‘NO’ I will not stand by this and make it acceptable to ruin peoples lives for the sake of the allmighty dollar. No to treating people with disabilities like they are less than human and more than they just a human being but a valuable part of today’s society. Do not send us back into the dark ages. If this many changes are to be made, since the NDIS’S inception, why you could not get it right the first time rather than now, the participants and people of the Australian community that are disabled being let down, disappointed, unsupported, dissalousined, confused, not being considered, not being consoulted, not being heard, not being valued, not being acknowledged, not being accepted, not being included. In conclussion I REJECT these new proposals and the current Governments excuses for determining what is best for the country when are just a after thought.