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National Disability Insurance Scheme

"NDIS" redirects here. For other uses, see NDIS (disambiguation).
This article is about Australia's disability insurance scheme. For the agency overseeing the safety of the scheme, see NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. For the universal health insurance system, see Medicare.

National Disability Insurance Agency
Agency overview
Formed1 July 2013 (2013-07-01)[1]
JurisdictionAustralia
Employees3,495 (2019)[2]
Annual budgetA$35.8 billion (2022–23)[3]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Lisa Studdert, Chief Executive Officer (Acting)[5]
Parent departmentDepartment of Social Services[6]
Websitendis.gov.au

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a scheme of the Australian Government that funds all costs associated with disability.[7][8] The scheme was legislated in 2013 and rolled out across all states and territories over in the period until in 2020.[8] Its introduction followed the Make It Real community campaign which involved community forums and large-scale rallies.[9] The scheme is administered by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and regulated by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. The scheme is overseen by the minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.[8]

The scheme entitles people with a "permanent and significant" disability (under the age of 65),[10] to full funding for any "reasonable and necessary" support needs related to their disability with limited exceptions. Funding is allocated to the individual, and the individual or their guardian chooses which providers supply the funded goods and services. The scheme is entirely publicly funded and not means-tested, with recipients not purchasing or contributing to the scheme directly.

NDIS funding is independent of the Disability Support Pension, state and territory disability programs, and Medicare, Australia's universal health insurance scheme. Legislation draws a distinction between health care and disability supports, only the latter being funded by the NDIS.

  1. ^ Buckmaster, Luke; Clark, Shannon (13 July 2018). "The National Disability Insurance Scheme: a chronology". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 2018–19". National Disability Insurance Scheme. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. ^ "How the NDIS will blow out to $50b (in four charts)". 24 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Ministers for the Department of Social Services". Ministers for the Department of Social Services. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Organisational structure". National Disability Insurance Scheme. 14 April 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Government Ministers and Departments". National Disability Insurance Scheme. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. ^ "About NDIS".
  8. ^ a b c "National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013". 18 October 2023.
  9. ^ McIntyre, Iain (26 April 2023). "People With Disability Australian Protest Timeline". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  10. ^ "What is the NDIS? | NDIS". www.ndis.gov.au. Retrieved 14 July 2019.

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