NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?
This week the government unveiled plans to reduce the number of people in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 160,000 over the next four years, a decision NDIS Minister Mark Butler has called “hard” but “unavoidable and urgent”.
This reduction will rely on tightening the eligibility criteria.
A new assessment tool, likely based on an algorithm, will work out how much someone’s disability affects their daily life – known as their “functional capacity”.
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