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Zac de Silva

The big change that could be coming for NDIS funding

The government wants to halve the NDIS growth rate, which is more than 10 per cent each year. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

An overhaul of the way the government funds disability services could require wealthier Australians to pay more for their care, in a bid to save billions of dollars on the federal budget.

Health Minister Mark Butler says "significant reform" to the National Disability Insurance Scheme is likely needed to reduce the program's growth rate from more than 10 per cent a year, to the government's target of between five and six per cent.

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