Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. New forecasts show the rapidly expanding NDIS is poised to blow a $5.7 billion hole in Jim Chalmers’ second budget, with ...

according to projections by the independent budget watchdog, published on Thursday. Bill Shorten launched an NDIS cost tracker in Parliament House on Thursday. Alex Ellinghausen Labor’s ...

But this will be offset against hefty cost overruns projected since last year’s budget, the Albanese government says. The National Disability Insurance Scheme is now the government’s third ...

Loading The historical reports also suggest that while the cost of the NDIS – which is the second most expensive item in the federal budget – is significant and rising, the projected cost ...

Disability spending through the NDIS is expected to overtake the cost of Medicare within three years, according to budget estimates that will fuel debate about the scheme's sustainability.

In a speech in Brisbane on Friday, Jim Chalmers will reveal his October budget must navigate spending growth of 12.1 per cent per year for the NDIS and 14 per cent increases in the cost of ...

It comes as Treasurer Jim Chalmers lists the rising costs of the NDIS as one of the key challenges of next month's federal budget. Projections show that the NDIS will cost more than $50 billion by ...

Photo shows A glass office building with the purple NDIS sign out the front. There are growing concerns about the sustainability of a central Labor policy following new budget projections showing ...

Projections are almost on track to gradually reduce the growth rate of the NDIS from 12 per cent in 2024-25, coming in just shy of its to 8.4 per cent target in 2025- Rebecca Falkingham ...