Published 20th May 2021
National Disability Services (NDS) has called for all political parties to ‘drop the politics’ after it was revealed the NDIS scheme’s recent blowout saga was consistent with forecasted scheme growth.
It was highlighted in a 2017 Productivity Commission Study Report into NDIS costs that the scheme was forecasted to reach a cost of $30.6 billion by 2024-25 – a figure of similar magnitude to the forecast for the same year in this year’s Budget.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that the NDIS was seeing a ‘cost blowout’ of about $30 billion calling into question the sustainability of the scheme as a result.
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Source:Kymberly Martin, 2021, Freedom 2 Live (https://www.freedom2live.com.au)
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