NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

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This week the government unveiled plans to reduce the number of people in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 160,000 over the next four years, a decision NDIS Minister Mark Butler has called “hard” but “unavoidable and urgent”.

This reduction will rely on tightening the eligibility criteria.