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

Submission 3891

Dear Senators

Two of my family members are currently receiving very important day to day assistance from the NDIS.

I do not like this bill because

Implementing a standardised assessment tool to test functional capacity and NDIS eligibility, instead of current requirement for expert health or medical reports. Removing individualised information and specialised advice means standardised assessments are likely to be inappropriate, ineffective and exclude and/or further marginalise significant groups of disabled people. They may also be used as blunt instruments to remove existing NDIS recipients who no longer meet an arbitrary threshold, regardless of their needs or experience.

The Bill undoes the ‘whole of person’ approach to funding supports secured in the 2024 amendments to the NDIS Act, which addressed how people with multiple impairments should be funded for supports where only one or some of their impairments qualify for access to the Scheme. Undoing the ‘whole of person’ approach will impose artificial distinctions in the way a person with multiple and interrelated disabilities accesses supports.