Federal Labor’s plan to reduce the cost of the NDIS by removing children with mild autism and developmental delays is also expected to strip away some participants with mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, which add almost $6 billion a year in spending to the scheme.
Former NDIS directors and executives said the second phase of Health Minister Mark Butler’s proposal to cut the scheme’s growth rate must tackle the significant number of participants with psychosocial disabilities; conditions the scheme was not intended to fund when it was set up.
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