People have been contacting A4 and other DROs with stories of their NDIS plans being cut when their circumstances have not changed. DROs says the NDIS says this is just annecdotal. The NDIS denies it is happening and ignores the issue. 

The number of ART external reviews of NDIS plans is growing rapidly. A4 has a recent example where the NDIS cut a plan that resulted from an ART decision by over 80% less than 6 months after the ART decision - there was no change in circumstance to justify the cut. The child now needs to go straight back to the ART to get reasonable and necessary supports in the NDIS plan. The first ART process took almost 2 years to get the supports needed for less than six months.

The chart below plots average NDIS plan busgets by age for autistic and non-autistic NDIS participants. Clearly, plan budgets for autistic NDIS participants have decreased for most age groups.

These charts do not include CPI (which would show greater decline in budgets). Nor does it show untilisation of budgets (which is low, mostly below 70%).

The data comes from the NDIS quarterly data releases.