Disability agency adds nearly 2,000 new employees while trying to rein in costs

The agency that runs the National Disability Insurance Scheme defends hiring nearly 2,000 new employees last year despite major changes being rolled out to rein in the program's cost.
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Parliament Enacts Tough NDIS Fraud Protection Laws

The Government's National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025 will become law after it passed the Parliament ...

Peter waited six months for a new wheelchair on the NDIS. By the time it arrived, it was obsolete

Exclusive: Participants in the disability scheme are waiting more than 100 days for vital support due to delays in processing plan variations, documents show ...
Finextra

CommBank to streamline claims handling for National Disability and Insurance Scheme

CommBank to streamline claims handling for National Disability and Insurance Scheme Commonwealth Bank (CBA) today announced a partnership with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to build ...
The Conversation

A disabled NDIA chair is a great first move in the NDIS reset. Here’s what should happen next

Helen Dickinson receives funding from ARC, NHMRC, Commonwealth Government and CYDA. The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has a new chair and for the first time it is a disabled person – ...
MacroBusiness

NDIS swells the ranks of the public service

The $50 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has become a perpetual motion machine that is driving ‘jobs and growth’ across the economy while acting as a lead weight on the federal ...
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Art and music therapies can be ‘life changing’ for people with disability

From November, music and art therapists will be able to charge the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) the same as counsellors, after an independent review found they can be effective and ...