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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.
