The E61 Institute’s number-crunching to show what difference a means test would make to the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is a case of the glass being half full.The centrist think tank, which is run by former Productivity Commission chairman Michael Brenan, says that applying the same income and assets test that determines eligibility for pension and unemployment payments to the NDIS would “generate modest fiscal savings”. This is an understatement.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Means test could also help cut NDIS down to size
New research underscores the worth of the government’s belated move to fix the fundamental design problems at the heart of the NDIS’s unaffordable trajectory.
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