National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3372
This submission is related to National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 34A Determination reducing funding for groups of supports
The amendment allows the Minister at any given time the ability to adjust funding percentage for a support category for participants by any arbitrary percentage, but specifically states the percentage must be lower than 100%.
This means it is legislated that a Minister can reduce funding, but cannot increase it if required for the benefit of Australians with a disability.
Legislation that only allows Ministerial intervention to reduce funding is clearly not targeted at allowing a Minister to act in the best interests of NDIS recipients.
I am submitting this submission on behalf of my daughter, Bianca. Bianca is 21 years old with Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) and the NDIS has agreed with an assessment that Bianca requires full time supervision and is not suitable for work placement.
Bianca’s parents happily provide this support outside of working hours, but she requires supports during the day while her parents are employed, and social and community participation is the most beneficial and cost effective way of ensuring her safety and well being. One on one support is more costly, results in social isolation and enables a carer to have unsupervised interaction with a vulnerable, non-verbal NDIS participant.
If her community support is reduced, she may die due to lack of supervision. Parents leaving employment can prevent this, but can the NDIS state that parents of adults with a disability must leave work to care for disabled dependents during work hours? This is not “informal support”