Women and families of disabled Australians will be unfairly affected by a sweeping rewrite of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, advocacy groups have warned.
A government inquiry into proposed NDIS changes is this week expected to hear evidence that access changes - designed in part to halt ballooning costs - will negatively impact mothers of disabled children, even if they are adults.
About $11 billion of the $16.6 billion savings forecast for 2029/30 will come from eligibility changes, including more detailed assessments, modelling from the Grattan Institute shows.
