NDIS Costs Blow out by Half a Billion Since Budget

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten speaks to participants during an event to celebrate International Day of people with a disability at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Dec. 3, 2020. AAP Image/Lukas Coch

The National Disability Insurance Scheme is set to cost half a billion dollars more this financial year compared to estimates produced just four months ago.

A Senate estimates hearing was told the scheme will cost $500 million (US$345 million) more for the 2022/23 financial year than what the government forecast in the October budget.