Labor to unveil NDIS future fund to ensure all money gets to disability services

Bill Shorten will promise a ‘locked box’ to ensure underspent funds are not redirected away from NDIS

Labor will unveil a National Disability Insurance Scheme Future Fund, promising a “locked box” to ensure all funds budgeted to the scheme are directed to the NDIS.

Campaigning at a national day of action for the NDIS ahead of a second leaders’ debate in Brisbane on Friday night, Bill Shorten will flag the new funding arrangement – a reserve fund to ensure underspent NDIS funds are not redirected to other programs.

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