Alacka Spooner

I reckon they have a magic 8 ball to choose their reason. On those motorised blinds I got pretty much every one on my rejections x 2. They even made up their own non legal reasons and contradicted themselves. So ridiculous. Luckily I got a sensible planner last time and asked again and was funded.

They tried that on me a while ago for an item. I’ve since read the McGarrigle federal court ruling where they interpreted reasonable family & carer support as referring to practical assistance i.e. labour not the provision of financial assistance.

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They always word things may, generally etc because that gives them an out and they won’t always find such things for example it’s not R&N or it’s not for your accepted impairment. NDIS definitely isn’t running well but the wording there is not the issue.

Prisoners can access Ndis. It responsible for a few things for prisoners. The bulk is justice system responsibility. ourguidelines.ndis.gov.au/how-ndis-sup...

“At the time of writing”. They didn’t remove things in price guide that are now against the law or were meant to be updated or removed so the price guide not changing is not a clear indicator, unfortunately.

Hi, this just popped up on my feed. Under 65 aged care is avail if you are at risk of entering resi aged care. My local acat had no idea u65 access was a thing so thought I’d share just in case your people don’t know either. www.health.gov.au/topics/aged-...

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The birthday cake gst answer was a key moment that lost Hewson an election, perhaps the egg price debate question will similarly be Dutton’s downfall? Maybe Howard because he’s the only PM to be voted in for consecutive terms in recent history so will albo do a Howard in this election?

Tomorrow I’ll reach the 190 week mark in my #NDIS home mods saga.

It was meant to be a one week job finished 15/3/25. Will it be finished this week as promised? I can but hope.

I’m one of the lucky ones who had great drs in my corner and I could grasp what was needed from them so I got access. The process though (incl a rejection first time) made me a lot sicker. If it had been simple I’d have gotten access a year earlier and not gotten so severe which costs ndis more.

Neither the PM or the wannabe PM can say the name of our country. What other basic things can’t they manage? #auspol

I’d also like to see a civil suit against RACP or practitioners who have made people worse through GET. We are probably all too exhausted to do that though.
I’m severe now because of physio, not for GET but exercise to fix an injury causing repeated crashes & they kept pushing me.

Probably because the word ‘scooter’ is in the vehicle list but that’s standard bikes and scooters. Not mobility scooters. Didn’t they bother to check the In list? Or deploy a tiny bit of common sense?

Screenshot of ndis website of purple writing on white background. It includes the text “Personal mobility equipment The provision of personal mobility equipment that supports or replaces a participant: capacity to move indoors and outdoors and to transfer from one place to another. This includes: • assistive products for walking • wheelchairs and motorised mobility devices • transfer devices and hoists • services to train a participant in successful use of equipment provided • maintenance, spare parts and consumable items specific to equipment provided.”

This is a mobility aid. Using one you are considered a pedestrian.
Travel and transport related to travelling at more than 10kph like cars, buses and trains.

www.ndis.gov.au/participants...

I have a separate Capital category for maintenance. You can use consumables for minor things. So is your PM saying no because you don’t have the category, because he thinks no maintenance is allowed now or because its over $1500?

PM is wrong.
Do you have AT maintenance funding in capital? Because that’s exactly what it’s for. They should fund an amount for all your equipment in each plan.

Welcome to NDIS where you jump when they say jump.
You do need referral for service so they can claim so that’s important. Same with support coordinator. OT you don’t but get on wait lists asap. I picked SC randomly so my first plan wasn’t delayed. Then sacked them a few weeks later.

I was looking at the OG earlier this week and noticed NDIA hadn’t updated to the 90days yet.

NDIA expenditure on individual law firms for 2023-2024 - a Freedom of Information request to National Disability Insurance Agency Please provide the following information about all law firms engaged by the NDIA in 2023-2024 for matters to which the NDIA was a Respondent at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT): 1) A list o...

The NDIA spent thirty-seven MILLION fighting disabled people & their families in court to stop us getting supports in 2023-2024.

In 2019-2021 they apparently lost 76% of cases at the then AAT.

So much for that 'waste clock' and demonising the disabled.

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Scary, scary times in the USA.

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I’d have the name was a pretty clear warning!

I’d much rather fly Virgin than Jetstar but looks like neither are an option for me to get to Sunshine coast again. My chair exceeds size&weight for Jetstar. Virgin has same plane & dimensions as qantas BUT it has a weight limit which my chair exceeds. I don’t think I’m up for that battle.

Was this with a wheelchair assist booking or without? I assume 2 max policy? I flew Virgin once narrow body plane where they’d booked 6 wc assist passengers. Mild panic from staff but we all got to where we were going. I don’t see why they can’t handle more than 2 regularly.

I hope you can access something soon.

I’m similar level of function. I got rejected first go for ndis. Aged care weren’t keen to help, locally they’d never heard of early access to aged care gone care packages even though a lot of us access it. They were going to apply for some other funding I’d never heard of for me instead.

Having support once medicos is the big challenge. With telehealth there’s some more options for specialists now if you were wanting to try again. DG and AF may have knowledge of programs you don’t know about and won’t find on the web yourself. Worth a try.

PS: I have me/cfs and people definitely do qualify with that as a disability. Applying is a mammoth task for us though.