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PROBLEMS plaguing the Geelong-based National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) are risking the lives of disabled people, a parliamentary committee has heard. Vanda Fear told the committee her son Paul had been put “badly at risk”. She said “argy-bargy” between Victoria’s health department and the NDIA, which administers the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), had “absolutely torn apart” his support package. “We were told that if you had an existing ISP (individual support package) you would not be disadvantaged in any way by this scheme coming in,” Ms Fear told the committee. “Not everybody has higher health needs as well as a disability, as our son has. The argy-bargy...between health and disability has put our son at risk so badly.” Ms Fear said her son “had the best therapist in Geelong” but she was fighting to keep his therapy component under the NDIS. “We have been told that they do not fund it but we have been told neither does anybody else. We did not get it funded by anybody. “We had to try everywhere and get it from DHS because there was nobody else in Victoria who could pay for it. But now we have been told that it is not going to be paid.” Ms Fear said the cost of an independent therapy assessment had soared from $80 to $300 an hour under the NDIS. Continued page 5
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