The NDIS is undergoing sweeping changes. How will the cuts work – and will they affect you?

Mark Butler said he will make ‘hard’ decisions to bring the program, which supports around 760,000 Australians with disabilities, under control Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has announced it will make “unavoidable and urgent” cuts to reduce the cost of the national disability insurance scheme by the decade’s end. The move follows a series of changes already under way to bring the bottom line of the scheme, which supports about 760,000 Australians with disabilities, under control. The health minister, Mark Butler, on Wednesday said he will make “hard” decisions to drastically cut the NDIS’s yearly growth to 2% each year until 2030. As part of his plan to lower the number of people on the scheme to 600,000 in four years – down from 760,000 – Butler said there would be changes to eligibility. The government will introduce a bill during the May budget week to bring in “standardised evidence-based assessments of a person’s functional capacity” to determine whether they should be given access to the NDIS. All participants will have to undergo this new test when it comes into effect by 2028. Butler said: “Ac