When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began to be rolled out in 2016, we warned that it would attract an army of fraudsters middle-men seeking their slice of the multi-billion honey pot on offer.
After all, witnessed similar rorting under the private vocational education and training (VET) and pink batts schemes, alongside the rorting of childcare subsidies.
In 2018, the defrauding got so bad that the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), which runs the NDIS, set up a specific 100-officer fraud task force to investigate over 500 allegations of fraud or “sharp practice”, including cases whereby tens of thousands of dollars had been “siphoned” from support packages.
