Melbourne woman with cerebral palsy fights to stay in her home after NDIS funding cut

Samar Bain has had her NDIS funding cut and was told she would have to move out of her home and into shared accommodation. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

A Melbourne woman with cerebral palsy is fighting to stay in her home just a year after moving in because the agency running the national disability insurance scheme has decided her funding is no longer “value for money”.

In May last year Samar Bain, 33, moved into a new apartment provided by the NDIS’s specialist disability accommodation (SDA) program. The home, in Heidelberg in Melbourne’s north-east, gives her the freedom and independence she has long desired.