30/06/2025
Let’s be clear about NDIS Pricing:
📉 Prices are being cut in real terms for a 7th year in a row for Support Coordination and Plan Management.
❌ NDIS is not passing on the Fair Work Commission wage increase.
🙅♀️ These changes were made behind closed doors. People with disability, their families, and the providers who support them were not consulted.
⛔ Critical supports are being devalued.
🚫 Support Coordination and Plan Management Prices are not based on a cost model and are not benchmarked against like services in Aged Care, Workplace Accident Schemes and Vehicle Accident Schemes.
Support Coordinators and Plan Managers aren't optional — they are essential. They support participants navigate an increasingly bureaucratic system, exercise their choice, amplify their voice, build capacity and ensure NDIS participants actually get the support they need.
We need transparency. We need fairness. We need a system that listens. We must
DIA urgently calls on the NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme to do the right thing and take immediate action:
1️⃣Pass on the 3.5% wage and 0.5% superannuation increase to Support Coordination and Plan Management pricing immediately (from 1 July);
2️⃣Reverse the cuts to establishment fees and rural/remote loading for Plan Management services;
3️⃣Reverse the cuts to provider travel so that services can be delivered in community settings not just clinics;
4️⃣Implement independent price setting. Only an independent pricing authority can set a transparent pricing model that accurately reflects the true cost of service delivery, including wage pressures, compliance costs, and the value of these services.
Kurt Fearnley Mark Butler MP Jenny McAllister Senator Anne Ruston Senator Jordon Steele-John
