Budget 2024: Labor to Spend $468 Million to Get NDIS ‘Back on Track’

The government are undertaking reforms to ’moderate this additional growth‘ and ’return the NDIS to its original intent,’ the budget noted. 

A man wearing a shawl over his head walks into a Centrelink, Medicare, NDIS office in Albany, Western Australia, on Sept. 26, 2023. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

The centre-left Labor government has vowed to get the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) “back on track” by splashing a further $468.7 million (US$310 million) on the scheme, the 2024-25 budget paper revealed.

The funding includes $268.1 million to “better protect NDIS participants and prevent fraud” and $200.6 million to “design and consult” based on the key recommendations of the independent NDIS review.