Dozens of lawyers have quit the agency that runs the National Disability Insurance Scheme in recent months as the organisation comes under pressure for spending tens of millions of dollars on external legal fees fighting against its own clients.
People with disabilities can appeal decisions to either reject them from entering the scheme altogether or to cut their existing plans. This is on top of an internal review process, which dealt with 38,466 reviews in 2020-21. Of those where decisions were made, seven in 10 overturned the original decision.Advocacy group People With Disability Australia says a culture appears to have developed within the NDIA over the past year of pushing people to pursue legal avenues to get the support they need.
In the past financial year, the agency spent nearly $22 million on external legal fees. Already since July, it has spent more than $30 million. The agency, saying it paid market rates for lawyers and cases that went to tribunal hearings accounted for only a fraction of all NDIS participants.
And if you dealing with akathisia, the biggest hidden cause of suicide in the land don't bother. It's frustration not some silly suicidal ideology
cambose9 THAT'S WHY IT'S UN FUCKINGSUSTAINABLE 🤬🤬
This has been going since the ndis liberals new about but haven’t done anything
Another failure with this government at the helm Add it to the list Its time for them to go
yes this is true but guess who is in charge and cutting the recipients either off or cutting their funding.... answer is its the LNP yes the LNP the party that your boss costello used to be the treasurer for... so WHY THE HELL IS A PIC OF LABOR THERE?
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