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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales

Huge cuts to national disability insurance scheme aim to save more than $36bn in budget’s largest single measure

General view of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) office in Canberra
Australia federal budget 2026: Labor says NDIS cuts will save more than $36bn. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The government expects to recoup $36.2bn by curbing the national disability insurance scheme’s growth over the next four years as it looks to return to the NDIS’s “original purpose” of supporting people with “significant and permanent disability”.

The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said the budget’s savings package amounted to genuine economic reform, beyond the “usual nips and tucks”.

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