NDIS minister claims no one has died waiting for the scheme, despite agency revealing 1,279 deathsThe government minister who runs the NDIS has claimed no one has died waiting for the scheme, despite the agency saying more than 1,200 people have died before they received a scheme plan and the prime minister describing those same figures as “unacceptable”. But quizzed about the figures, which were first published by News Corp on Wednesday morning, Stuart Robert told 2GB they were “not even remotely correct” and that “no one has passed away waiting for the NDIS”. NDIS minister Stuart Robert defends governance of disability agency after series of controversies Read more“The reporting today that people have tragically passed away, the fact that they’ve passed away of course is correct, but no one has passed away waiting for the NDIS,” Robert said. The radio station 2GB subsequently reported that Robert had “denied reports more than a thousand people have died waiting for packages” and quoted him saying “no one has passed away waiting for the NDIS”. Guardian Australia asked Robert’s office how it was true that “no one had passed away waiting for the NDIS” when the agency itself had said that 1,279 people died after making an access request and before receiving a plan.

Source: The Guardian January 15, 2020 08:15 UTC