National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3391
National Disability Insurance Scheme
Amendment (Securing the NDIS for
Future Generations) Bill 2026
Debbie Williams
I know a lot of people on the NDIS who are already struggling with the cuts already happening. My kids included. You are cutting 50% to the community participation on already cut funding is going to close people off and create a mental health epidemic.
This will put an extra strain on the Centrelink disability pension and have a lot of people on exemptions from work due to not being able to either get there or cope with not having a support person while in the job. It is like taking a guide dog away from a blind person. They need that extra person to help them with coping at work and doing their job.
My eldest son has Autism level 2 with a lot of mental health issues connected to it. Just a mention of the NDIS now sends him on a suicidal rant for well over 2 hours. I am in fear that if these cuts affect his psychology or support worker hours, I may well lose him. If this happens it will ruin my whole family and circle of friends as he has great potential with the right supports.
He hates that people can’t just live their lives how they feel they need to without some pen pusher in a cushy office gets to say, “no you don’t need that”.
He is very isolated already and if these cuts come into place, he will be living in his room without the necessary supports around him to get him out in the community and in the sunshine on a weekly basis. He is on the edge already and his psychologist is working closely with him. So, if his hours with this support is cut AT ALL, he will crack.
The psychologist went on 4 weeks leave and my son was worse than ever when he returned and had to have an extra telehealth session for two weeks straight to get him stable again.
You have not lived the life of living with a disability or caring for someone with such. I care for 3 young adult autistic adults who all have additional needs that I would not be able to cope with on my own without the NDIS.
My youngest also suffers from mental health and social issues connected with her Autism and intellectual disability. She will not talk to strangers to just buy an item while at the shops no matter to report a crime to Police or security guards.
I do take my kids out myself but at their ages they get embarrassed by Mum taking them and two out of three won’t take public transport on their own.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 3391
I feel that my eldest will not be alone in committing suicide if this bill is passed in its current form and that blood will be on your hands fully if you don’t change it in a major way.
Also look into the fraud mongering providers. They are not ALL unregistered. There are registered providers doing things they are not meant to like employing family members who have no experience or qualifications in nursing to issue medication to people with disability. You need a department that randomly turns up to providers and check their qualifications and attend with the workers to the clients. Talk to the clients away from the providers to see if they are complying with the rules and requirements. This is where the money is going. Fake organisations registering for NDIS and then doing what they want after that.
Have NDIA employ people with a background of some sort in disability not just office workers and train them on your spreadsheets to save money.
How about if you turned up to a GP with a wound and some person with no qualification bandaged it up and charged you for a registered nurse fee. You would be getting them fired. This is the same thing. They are making decisions that they have no idea about and it affects all these vulnerable people’s lives. Then it is so hard to try and get it back and you wait months.
Then the appeal process is a waste of money if you had staff who knew what they were doing in the first place the appeal process would not be needed.
They hire well paid solicitors to fight someone in a wheelchair that can not talk trying to keep funding from them living a life that themselves do.
Please withdraw this bill and consult properly with people in the disability community. Especially the poor carers out there that are trying to get by in a cost-of-living crisis and care for their loved ones by having a support team around them.
I for one is trying to get a part time job to support my kids more but if their funding for support workers is cut, I will not be able to work and my petrol would skyrocket due to having to take them all out one at a time as my car does not fit them all, as they are very tall now.
I suffer with Arthritis in my hips, knees, ankles and feet so I can not do travel training with them.
I am very happy to talk to anyone that will listen about my knowledge of what is going on as I have seen a lot of fraud going on and no one listens.
Ndia takes no notice of any reports of fraud as they are too busy taking away from the people the NDIS was meant to support.