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Neve Brissenden

Disability insurance process 'traumatic'

A Senate committee is examining the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A man with a rare degenerative condition that resulted in half his brain being surgically removed was told by Australia's disability agency his funding had been slashed because "patients get better".

Ruth Den Brinker, the mother and full-time carer of a 44-year-old man with disabilities, presented her submission to a Senate committee examining the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) on Thursday.

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