Sienna has cerebral palsy, cannot talk and needs her lungs suctioned every few minutes. Her mother June ‘can tell you exactly what every cent’ in her NDIS plan is for
I think there’s been something like a 40% increase in funding per participant from 42k p/a to 62k p/a in 5 years. It’s also forecast to be third largest federal expenditure outside of funding states and senior support. Support needs to be sustainable.
I do work around the edges of it, so I know the ridiculous cost of some things. I also know the ridiculous amount of people that consistently apply. I know some of the individual plans are absolutely astronomical and there’s plenty who need support to maximize independence that don’t receive it.
Blindy waving a hand saying we can afford it when it’s up against exponential growth is also not helpful.
Mentioning about taxing gas companies is irrelevant in this current setting. But yes, of course there should be a significant resource tax that benefits the country
Well, that could be a cleaner engaged by Maid2Match cleaning clients houses.
If you have genuine experience with the scheme, you should know that most of the issues are still around fraudulent providers and external pressure on carers and self plan managers, which this government was well underway to solving. I know that myself as a plan manager; I could have racked up thousands of dollars in dodgy invoices under the Coalition. Shorten tightened that well.
50% cuts to social and community participation budgets will kill people, you should know that too. Cancelling the right of review is a dogshit move. Putting the minister in a position where they can cancel plans without review is fraught with issues.
The ridiculous amount…
Yes. Like I said, we’re only now finding out what it costs to equalise living standards for disabled people. Any alternative services that are adequate or half decent don’t exist. The NDIS is the option. From my recollection it was meant to fill these gaps. This assumption that it was only ‘for our most severely disabled’ Is an assumption, leant on to justify cuts.
This government or any other doesn’t have anything remotely suitable, to transition people to. 200 million for associated services is nothing. Back to inadequate church based volunteer and state services; one of the things this scheme was built to stop.
We have enough money. More than enough.
plenty who need support that don’t have it
And they should; that’s what we built this for. Until such times as other services stand, the NDIS is their only service.
mentioning about taxing gas companies
Is absolutely relevant when ‘sustainability’ is mentioned. So is mentioning tax cuts and developer giveaways, which I left out until now. As Konrad Benjamin pointed out, ‘we’ll be asked to tighten our belts…’ it’s very relevant.
On that, these cuts will return a loss of jobs in the industry, so what the government might save by killing off a couple of moderately or severely impaired people, it’ll lose at least some in jobs and businesses.
I think there’s been something like a 40% increase in funding per participant from 42k p/a to 62k p/a in 5 years. It’s also forecast to be third largest federal expenditure outside of funding states and senior support. Support needs to be sustainable.
We literally blew five times the NDIS on subsidies for companies that don’t even recompense us properly for the value they extract.
We accidentally dropped a shitton of drones into the harbour and wrote it off. Those displays are around $50,000 per show
We can afford to take care of our own.
We’re a wealthy country, it’s sustainable. When we’re so wealthy, fuck the ableist accounting of sustainable. Drag the abacus out for gas companies.
Funny how ‘sustainable’ only ever comes from those not involved with it. It’s generally followed by ‘well as a taxpayer…’, that one coming next?
Like I said, we’re just learning what it truly costs to give disabled people a decent quality of life. If we can’t spend it, what’s our point?
I do work around the edges of it, so I know the ridiculous cost of some things. I also know the ridiculous amount of people that consistently apply. I know some of the individual plans are absolutely astronomical and there’s plenty who need support to maximize independence that don’t receive it. Blindy waving a hand saying we can afford it when it’s up against exponential growth is also not helpful. Mentioning about taxing gas companies is irrelevant in this current setting. But yes, of course there should be a significant resource tax that benefits the country
Well, that could be a cleaner engaged by Maid2Match cleaning clients houses.
If you have genuine experience with the scheme, you should know that most of the issues are still around fraudulent providers and external pressure on carers and self plan managers, which this government was well underway to solving. I know that myself as a plan manager; I could have racked up thousands of dollars in dodgy invoices under the Coalition. Shorten tightened that well.
50% cuts to social and community participation budgets will kill people, you should know that too. Cancelling the right of review is a dogshit move. Putting the minister in a position where they can cancel plans without review is fraught with issues.
Yes. Like I said, we’re only now finding out what it costs to equalise living standards for disabled people. Any alternative services that are adequate or half decent don’t exist. The NDIS is the option. From my recollection it was meant to fill these gaps. This assumption that it was only ‘for our most severely disabled’ Is an assumption, leant on to justify cuts.
This government or any other doesn’t have anything remotely suitable, to transition people to. 200 million for associated services is nothing. Back to inadequate church based volunteer and state services; one of the things this scheme was built to stop.
We have enough money. More than enough.
And they should; that’s what we built this for. Until such times as other services stand, the NDIS is their only service.
Is absolutely relevant when ‘sustainability’ is mentioned. So is mentioning tax cuts and developer giveaways, which I left out until now. As Konrad Benjamin pointed out, ‘we’ll be asked to tighten our belts…’ it’s very relevant.
On that, these cuts will return a loss of jobs in the industry, so what the government might save by killing off a couple of moderately or severely impaired people, it’ll lose at least some in jobs and businesses.
What your describing is an overbilling scheme, and corruption is not a valid reason to claim budget issues
This isn’t a simple “over billing scheme” .
Wow. A divide that large takes some extra special delusion and mishandling