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Concerns over reduced supports and functional capacity (Participant experience)

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

Submission 2809

Submission on the NDIS Amendment Bill

Name: Hayley Poole

I am a Disabled person

  1. My connection to this issue Is my lived experience applying for, accessing and being a participant on the NDIS.

  2. My overall view of this Bill I oppose this bill and have serious concerns for disabled people and people accessing, applying for NDIS. I am extremely scared and worried about myself and the disabled communities independence, opportunities and functional capacity.

  3. My main concerns ​ Administrative burden:

Increasing the administrative burden will negatively affect NDIS participants. Living with disabilities is extremely exhausting, there is already so much admin that we do for appointments, specialist, therapy, NDIS. Adding more to this is going to cause more NDIS participants to be overwhelmed and burn out.

Loss or reduction of supports:

I am afraid of NDIS participants losing or having their supports reduced as the NDIS supports give people with disabilities independence and freedom to live. This matters to me because my community deserves to have equal access and opportunity in life the same as able bodied people. A real life example of this is last month I ran out of all my support worker funding for this period. I am unable to drive and leave my house alone. I am stuck in my house all the time and can’t attend university because I don’t have support workers to transport me there. This affects my ability to live independently and have equal opportunities, it also has affected my mental health because I am constantly alone all the time and have to rely on others to help me with everything.

Community participation:

Reducing community participation will affect NDIS participants negatively and affect the economy. Everyone deserves equal opportunities and access in the community.

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

Submission 2809

If community participation is reduced there will be less people working and less people putting money into the community. An example of this is community participation funding is what a lot of disabled people rely on to get to work, uni, get their groceries, go to essential medical appointments for their disabilities. With community participation reduced disabled people will have to go without these and it will reduce their functional capacity and they will have to get more support from the NDIS.

​ Children / families / early intervention:

Early intervention for all NDIS participants is essential to prevent their functional capacity from worsening. This matters because it stops the disabled community from worsening their disabilities and helps the NDIS to spend less in the future. An example of this is over the past 2 years I have been trying to submit a change of circumstances to add additional disabilities, I was rejected at the end of last year. Since then my functional capacity has decreased significantly due to not having access to essential supports and treatments I need to improve my disabilities. If I were to have early intervention my functional capacity wouldn’t have decreased significantly and I wouldn’t need significantly more support now.​

  1. What I want the committee to understand This Bill does not benefit any participants on the NDIS or future participants.

  2. My position on this Bill I do not support this Bill in any way whatsoever because it is going to significantly affect disabled people negatively and the economy.