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Disability advocates forced to turn people away as appeals to NDIS cuts grow

Rhett Burnie
ABC Radio PM
Wednesday 6th April, 2022
For months now we've been hearing of stories of people on the NDIS who've had their support funding cut. That's sent thousands to the appeals tribunal - where people with
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Morrison Government improving home and living supports for NDIS participants including to SIL

Life
National Tribune
Wednesday 6th April, 2022
“These changes will reduce red tape, and remove a number of practical and administrative concerns participants and providers have raised, to ensure it’s easier for participants to access home and
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Parliament passes important NDIS legislation to improve participant experience

Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC
media release
Friday 1st April, 2022
The Australian Government has today delivered the most significant improvements to participant experience since the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was established in 2013. Minister for the National Disability Insurance
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NDIA boss apologises after staff used social media posts to challenge woman’s eligibility

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Saturday 2nd April, 2022
The rheumatologist called by the NDIA had drawn upon the “intelligence report” to find the woman did not experience “significant functional impairment” from her chronic pain, the tribunal said.
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Clients waiting years for crucial equipment as providers battle ‘bureaucratic’ NDIS system

Eleanor Beidatsch
ABC News
Saturday 2nd April, 2022
There have even been cases where clients have died waiting for assistive technology (AT), as service providers struggle to navigate the "complex" and "bureaucratic" National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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NDIA scrutinised woman’s social media posts to challenge her eligibility, tribunal decision reveals

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Friday 1st April, 2022
National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff reviewed the social media accounts of a woman applying for the scheme and sent a report to a doctor engaged to provide an expert
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NDIA wanted Aboriginal man, 64, who relied on ‘homemade walking stick’ rejected from scheme

Luke henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 30th March, 2022
The argument put forward by the agency was rejected as “extraordinary” by administrative appeals tribunal (AAT) member Simon Webb in a judgment published last week. Webb said the man was
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What we know about the NDIS cuts, and what they’ll mean for people with disability and their families

Helen Dickinson and Anne Kavanagh
The Conversation
Monday 28th March, 2022
There has also been a large increase in the number of people disputing these decisions. Between July 2021 and January 2022, an extra 1,423 people with disability have asked the
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Exclusive: NDIS reforms target children under nine

Rick Morton.
Saturday Paper
Saturday 26th March, 2022

Tender documents show the government is tweaking the National Disability Insurance Scheme to exclude thousands of children with disabilities such as autism. By

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NDIA under pressure to end delays and get participants out of hospitals and aged care homes

Dan Jervis-Bardy
Canberra Times
Thursday 17th March, 2022
A coalition of housing, health and disability groups has launched a pre-election campaign calling on the National Disability Insurance Agency to dramatically speed up decisions about funding for supported accommodation.
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Sustainable care means a sustainable system

Amber Crossthwaite
Business News
Saturday 26th February, 2022
the NDIS was created as a job creator and economic driver, but is increasingly viewed through the narrow prism of cost.
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‘Wildly unreasonable’: agency slashes mother’s NDIS funding and then her daughter’s

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Thursday 24th February, 2022
Jannine Scott says funding had been ‘life-changing’, but now feels every time she interacts with the NDIA ‘it’s combative rather than supportive.’
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