buffy said:

Cymek said:

Arts said:

Mr Butler said the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), the body that administers the NDIS, had no “visibility of evidence for 90 per cent of claims that are made by plan managers or by providers directly”.

yes because they don’t look at individual items on an invoice.. A provider just supplies the invoice. This oversite means that providers, such as a physical therapist, can (and does) charge $90 fro a five minute phone call, $73 for a photocopy, $212 fuel costs to make one home visit and then contact hours on top of that.

The only people the NDIS actually supported were the providers, and they wonder why there is a blowout… but yes, lets limit the amount of people that can access the NDIS as a measure of cost cutting.

Seems quite a lot of fraud involved

It would be my observation that the scheme was brought in and expected to be tweaked but we changed government and got a conservative version of tweaking.

I checked the timing. It passed through parliament in March 2013, but we change governments and various things got changed. “History section on Wikipedia”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Disability_Insurance_Scheme

We might have had nothing if it hadn’t gone through just before the election.