NDIS Independent Assessments

Hi @Corny

I think this change in NDIS will be not rolled out until the middle of the year, so maybe your review will not be with independent assessor this time round. I guess this is a way of saving money by the government. I have just been approved for NDIS and so if the independent reviews come in, that won't happen until the end of my first plan. But I have a sense that I may be one of the people that gets dropped from the scheme on the basis of independent review. I am preparing myself for the possibility my NDIS may end up being only for this coming year.

Thank you @Gwynn & @Mazarita

The only people lower than me on the Liberal Government's hierarchy of value are people in immigration detention.

I have been reduced to an economic unit.

I can't understand how the Gov says that their justification is that in the current system, it is biased towards people that can pay for medical reports from a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, and yet the NDIS is not means tested, no income or assets are assessed. People living in a 25 million dollar home on Sydney Harbour who own businesses and a dozen investment properties can qualify for the NDIS. I had a lovely, very young, and in my mind quite vulnerable support worker tell me that the private provider she works for asked her to provide MH support via the NDIS for male convicted child sex offenders. Convicted child sex offenders can access the NDIS and yet I am made to feel like a fraud.

There's something terribly wrong with the system.

Cheers

Corny.

I wish I could say more but I can’t but you do have every right to go to your local federal member and “enlighten” them @Corny

Thanks @Eve7 , yes I do. But where the Gov wins, and how people become homeless is that the very illness itself depletes our energy and we have no fight left in us. When you're very unwell you can't leave your apartment, and not everyone has an advocate.

Even my NDIS Planner from the very beginning said to me on the phone after I said that I didn't want to work with a particular person, that they had no formal education or understanding of psychosocial disability.....what on earth am I supposed to say to that.

I'll do my best to advocate for myself and for other people with disabilities.

Cheers,

Corny

Hi @Corny anxiety and anger about this seems justified. I have bitterness about my low status in society in general. Your observation about means testing is so apt, wish they would do that. I have found anything like this, disability pension reviews, NDIS, a rollercoaster of anxiety, anger. Great relief when they do go well. Hoping for a good outcome for you.

NDIS is funded by the Australian taxpayers not the government @Corny

Remind them of that!!

Thank you @Eve7 but the NDIS was implemented by the Labor Gov and the only reason I got it was that ScoMo scabby skin was sitting on over a billion dollars to balance the budget before Covid. He was forced to release the $$$ so I just so happen to apply at that very time when he did...it was a trick Howard perfected, if you hadn't noticed John Howard still runs the country, ScoMo and Joshy are on the blower to him daily......but yeah....when I read their website (NDIA) I was quite shocked that it isn't means tested, people's incomes are not assessed and they could be sitting pretty on 4,5,6,9,12 properties and still receive funding for their disability.

Thanks @Mazarita it is very hard to feel like you are living a dignified life. I think this is what tips so many people over the edge and why they choose to not go on living. It is very hard to accept all the loss and that we will never reach any semblance of a dignified life, let alone our own potential....people campaign for dignity in death, that we aught to be able to choose, but to get dignity in life while we're still living is close to impossible in this shallow, money driven world.

Corny