People living with disabilities are being coerced into rented accommodation by unscrupulous operators who can drain their NDIS funding and leave them with little, if any, support.
As an NDIS participant let me just say it is way too easy for providers, regardless of their registration status, to commit fraud and exploit participants. It happened to me once where a provider charged my plan for services they didn’t deliver. Reported it with the regulator but it was such a small amount that it just falls down the priority list. It’s an open secret how incapable the ndis regulator is and how few teeth it has. The ndis is essentially a free market system being used to distribute resources to vulnerable people without a functioning regulator. This particular incident also could have been prevented if the ndia provided a form of public service based case management like it was originally supposed to.
As an NDIS participant let me just say it is way too easy for providers, regardless of their registration status, to commit fraud and exploit participants. It happened to me once where a provider charged my plan for services they didn’t deliver. Reported it with the regulator but it was such a small amount that it just falls down the priority list. It’s an open secret how incapable the ndis regulator is and how few teeth it has. The ndis is essentially a free market system being used to distribute resources to vulnerable people without a functioning regulator. This particular incident also could have been prevented if the ndia provided a form of public service based case management like it was originally supposed to.