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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare last month released its report on people with disability. It shows two in three people with disability aged 35 to 44 years have parenting responsibilities and over one in five people with intellectual disability aged 15 to 44 years have children.

Last year, nearly A$45 million in National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) payments were cancelled as they were thought to be fraudulent. But more recent estimates suggest that may be nowhere near the level of fraud occurring in the scheme.

Kathy and Daniel Dwyer fear they may lose their support coordinator after the NDIS freezes pricing for the third year in a row. Their provider is one of more than 250 likely to close in the next year.

A police taskforce will be established to target organised crime groups allegedly intimidating and exploiting disability scheme participants and defrauding billions of dollars from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.