NDIS Participants Plan Utilisation by Disability

Question

Mr Comley: I just want to make a point about CBDA which is in the impact analysis. Obviously, the reduction that's being envisaged here is 10 per cent. The other thing that is in the impact analysis is that the average utilisation of CBDA is actually 61 per cent across all participants. Quite obviously, there will be some people who have 100 per cent utilisation of their CBDA. But for those people who have utilisation of 90 per cent or below, there is not actually a change in their capacity to purchase CBDA supports. Senator STEELE-JOHN: You make a good point, Mr Comley. Would you be able to take it on notice so that we can understand as a committee the state of play in a little bit more detail. Could you, or whoever is required to do it, provide us with a breakdown of that utilisation rate by cohorts of participants so we can understand, beyond the averages which you've quoted there, what it actually looks like for different cohorts of participants within the scheme. Then if that breakdown could further touch on state and territory differences that would be appreciated. Mr Comley: We will take on notice how much detail we can provide. Maybe we might also bear that in mind with the inquiry next week. Senator STEELE-JOHN: I think it can do that. I remember years ago we got into a conversation about utilisation rates, and it takes a bit of time to pull them out, but you did have quite good data on utilisation rates by different cohorts of participants. I can see Mr McNaughton nodding. Do you think that's possible? Mr McNaughton: We'll take that on notice. I know the actuary has produced that data set previously; you're right.

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