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Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Stuart Robert, today announced grants worth a total of $67.8 million to support people with a disability to better connect with their community, gain employment and access health services.

The NDIA has published a guide to complex home modifications (CHM) for builders and assessors. The Complex Home Modification Guide is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of complex home modifications to reduce the number of re-quotes and facilitate timely approvals.

The National Disability Insurance Agency has zero tolerance for fraud against the NDIS and its participants. At no stage has the NDIA agreed that the Agency’s tolerance level for fraud was 10 per cent. Any suggestion to the contrary is wrong. The NDIA’s publicly available Fraud Strategy Statement clearly outlines the Agency’s position.

On Friday 14 February, NDIA CEO Martin Hoffman spoke to the Council for Economic Development of Australia.

Media reporting on the ABC network today regarding Early Childhood Early Intervention supports under the NDIS, requires clarification. It is wrong to link state hospital wait times with access to the NDIS ECEI Approach and doing so could cause unnecessary worry for families. Diagnosis is not a requirement for support provided by the NDIS’s ECEI Approach.

The Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme today released the COAG NDIS Quarterly Report for the quarter ending 31 December 2019.