The National Disability Insurance Scheme, commonly abbreviated as NDIS, offers support to people living with disabilities, their families, and carers. The NDIS was established under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act of 2013. The Act aims to affect Australia’s obligations as per the Convention on People Living with Disability in Australia. The NDIS Act outlines the operational details of the scheme. The NDIS Act also established the NDIA (National Disability Insurance Agency), the agency that administers NDIS. For help understanding the complexity of this act, consider contacting an expert at (https://providerplus.com.au/), or doing your own research by using Google to find authoritative information about this topic. For those of you who want a brief synopsis, please continue reading.
The NDIS Act outlines the objective of the National Disability Insurance Scheme as:
The NDIS Act outlines that while implementing the NDIS Act, the focus should be on enhancing its financial stability.
The NDIS has a broader role of enabling people with disability to:
The NDIS Act sets forth people who are eligible for support under the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The access requirements that a person must meet to access the NDIS support are:
People seeking access to NDIS must do so through the NDIA. The eligible NDIS participants remain eligible for life.
As outlined by the NDIS Act, the available individualized support revolves around education, social participation, employment, living arrangements, health, and wellbeing. Participants may also receive funding for:
The NDIS established under the NDIS Act replaced the former system of the National Disability Agreement, abbreviated as NDA. The productivity commission recommended that Australia replaced the NDA with a unified national scheme back in 2011. The unified scheme would fund long-term and high-quality support and care for all Australians who experience a significant disability. The former system was unfair, underfunded, fragmented, and inefficient. The NDA didn’t give people with disabilities a choice or certainty to access the needed supports. After the enactment of the NDIS Act of 2013, the NDIS commenced on 1 July 2013. The NDIS helps every person with a disability. Disabled persons can access support regardless of when and where the disability was acquired.
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