PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES – SERVICES FOR – AUSTRALIA

Labor push for 49.5pc top tax hit

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Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 12-May-17

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has used his Budget reply speech to outline measures to provide funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. He advocated retention of the two per cent temporary deficit levy for high-income earners and increasing the Medicare levy by 0.5 per cent for people on incomes of more than $A87,000. This would increase the highest marginal tax rate to 49.5 per cent. Shorten also said the Opposition supports a proposed bank levy, although he stressed that the cost should not be passed on to customers.

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, NICK XENOPHON TEAM, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES. MEDICARE AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICE, DELOITTE ACCESS ECONOMICS PTY LTD

IT failures force NDIS to miss care target

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Original article by Laura Tingle
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 7 : 2-Sep-16

The rollout of the IT system at the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been plagued by technical problems that caused delays in the preparation of care plans. The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), which runs the scheme, conceded that only 970 care plans were approved in the past two months, while the target was more than 20,000. Federal and state disability ministers will be briefed on the matter by the NDIA at a meeting on 2 September 2016.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE AGENCY

NDIS could kick-start a boom in jobs and business

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Original article by Laura Tingle
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 14-Mar-16

The National Disability Insurance Agency has estimated that the Australian Government’s National Disability Insurance Scheme will create almost 29,000 jobs and boost the value of the disability services market to $A6.8bn. This is in line with figures from Federal Social Services Minister Christian Porter and New South Wales Disability Services Minister John Ajaka. The full rollout of the NDIS will commence in NSW and Victoria from July 2016.

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AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE AGENCY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF AGEING, DISABILITY AND HOME CARE, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Call for concerns on NDIS to be voiced

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Original article by Dan Harrison
The Age – Page: 10 : 1-Jul-14

Trial sites in several states for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) were launched in mid-2013 by the previous Australian government. Mitch Fifield, the current Assistant Minister for Social Services, is calling on those who have had unsatisfactory experiences with the NDIS roll-out to come forward, so that the program can be improved where possible. There have been reports that the level of services offered under the NDIS falls short of what is recommended by experts

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AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE AGENCY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, AUSTRALIA. PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION