‘Needs to Be Made Sustainable’: PM to Lower Future NDIS Funding Increases

‘It’s all difficult stuff, making sure that we can make the NDIS the best version of itself, including the most sustainable version of itself.’

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

Labor will not reduce funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) but will attempt to lower its projected cost increases to make it more sustainable.

The federal government has tried to cap the annual growth of the NDIS to 8 percent as the scheme continues to be one of the country’s fastest-growing cost centres.