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

Submission 3676

Subject: Submission - NDIS Bill 2026

28/5/2026 Dear Committee,

My name is and I am writing to you as a participant of the NDIS.

My main concern with this Bill is the proposal to cut funding for all psychosocial areas.

In real life for me this would mean that I would not be able to have access to the community without the aid of support workers. I wouldn’t be able to talk to or socialise with other real people face to face on a daily basis or participate in community activities at all. I live alone with no family support and I dont see any person daily. There are many many days where I do not speak to another human at all. I have a few friends who live in completely different areas of Melbourne to where I live and in other states. I have had to cancel plans last minute continually because of the impact my disabilities have on my daily functional capacity. As it is I am currently underfunded in this area and the new proposal wants to take away the little I have left ? My disabilities limit my functional capacity to access the community in many different ways as no two days are the same when living with chronic mental illness.

The consequences of having this funding reduced would impact me in the following ways:

• My functional capacity would decline rapidly without access to the community.
• My disabilities would get worse and I wouldn’t be able to reach my goals.
• I would become more isolated and my safety would be at risk.
• I would have more hospital admissions.
• I would have more Emergency Department presentations and admissions. The risk of death or death by misadventure would increase drastically.

Yes there needs to be reforms with the NDIS but it should never ever be at the expense of the participant. I support reform that deals with fraud, waste and poor practice, but I am worried about risk and practicality of the current suggested reform.

I ask the committee to consider three vital areas:

1. The real life impact cutting funding to those already on the NDIS is going to have on every individual participant.
2. The effectiveness of the roll out because reforms are needed but rolling out changes that are going to be detrimental to participants won’t save money, it will just increase it.
3. The new assessment system that has already proven to not work. Assessments are exhausting, anxiety ridden and complex processes to go through. A computer system can not replace a human when assessing the needs of another human. The proposed new assessment system will cost money not save money.

Yours sincerely,