Our Key Concerns

We’re calling for immediate steps to address the funding crisis for disability services. The NDIA’s Annual Price Review:

• Increase of 3.19 per cent, for some services,fails to cover the increase in worker wages, let alone recognise the increased cost of day-to-day expenses such as insurance, utilities, rents that we are experiencing. 
• Did not increase funding limits for Level Two and Three Support Coordination. This half decade long funding freeze is a 25 per cent cut in real terms. 
• The changed definition of high intensity supports, which prevents providers claiming high-intensity payments for challenging behaviors. 
• Did not increase therapy supports and orthotic/prosthetic services for the fifth consecutive year (except for some indexation for psychology).
• Included no support for registered providers and removed both the one per cent temporary loading and the 1.5 per cent temporary transformation payment for some providers.

Providers of quality disability services are already reaching breaking point. Recent surveys conducted by National Disability Services and Disability Intermediaries Australia found that 75 per cent of providers are considering stopping some or all of their disability services including hundreds of Support Coordination Organizations because of the price limits that came in on 1 July.

It’s Time to Speak Up!

It’s time for to tell the Minister for the NDIS, the Opposition, Local Members and the NDIA what you think about this years Annual Price Review and how it will impact you. Use the panel on this page to send an email to the Minister of the NDIS, Shadow Minister for the NDIS and the NDIA.

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