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NDIS cuts not just about kicking people off: minister

The minister in charge of the NDIS has defended looming changes to the scheme that will require people with disabilities to be reassessed.

AAP · Apr 25

Today’s bloated NDIS would never have been greenlit, its former head says. How did we get here?

The Albanese government this week launched the most significant intervention in the disability support scheme’s history

The Guardian - AU · Apr 25

NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

This week the government unveiled plans to reduce the number of people in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 160,000 over the next four years, a decision NDIS Minister Mark Butler has called “hard” but “unavoidable and urgent”.

The Conversation · Apr 24

Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes

Minister tells Guardian Australia despite substantial changes to disability scheme, it will remain one of best support services ‘anywhere in the world’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23

Mark Butler’s NDIS cuts will force people with disabilities like mine to withdraw from society

The inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart by ruthless, ableist bureaucracy

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23

NDIS revamp deadline guaranteed as 'hostages' exposed

Anthony Albanese has offered assurances to disabled Australians as a premier warns overhauling a federal support scheme will leave the discarded worse off.

AAP · Apr 22

‘We’d be on our own’: families face being thousands of dollars worse off as Labor cuts NDIS lifeline

Households fear not being able to cope if support is reduced or removed amid confusion about how the cuts will impact children and adults with autism

The Guardian - AU · Apr 22

The NDIS is undergoing sweeping changes. How will the cuts work – and will they affect you?

Mark Butler said he will make ‘hard’ decisions to bring the program, which supports around 760,000 Australians with disabilities, under control

The Guardian - AU · Apr 22

Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants

In sweeping reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) announced today, the government will cut 160,000 participants from the scheme over the next four years and reduce funding for the average plan by A$5,000 in the next two years.

The Conversation · Apr 22

States push back on footing bill for NDIS changes

State leaders and ministers say they were kept in the dark on the extent of planned changes to the NDIS and fear they're being left to pick up the tab.

AAP · Apr 22