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The NDIS is a better way of providing support and services for people living with disability. It’s all based around helping you meet your goals, such as living safely and independently at home, finding and keeping a job or volunteering, getting out and about in the community or staying social.
The NDIS:
- integrates with other sectors such as health, aged care, education and housing
- has no impact on the Disability Support Pension and is not a means-tested entitlement
- provides you with purchasing power, choice and control
- is managed by a Commonwealth statutory authority, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
- has bipartisan support, so all governments are working together to ensure its success
- is partially funded by the Medicare levy, which means that all of society is contributing toward the funds needed to run the scheme
The National Disability Insurance Agency has lots of good information about how the NDIS works — see www.ndis.gov.au.
You can learn more about the NDIS by watching our webinars and recordings and accessing our NDIS information sheets.