Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, , 7:00:32 to 7:05:46
A review of total plan reassessment figures for the financial year and a discussion on transport support payments, including taxi subsidies and mobility allowance transitions.
Topics: Government spending, Social services
Speakers: Hon Anne Ruston, Scott McNaughton, Unknown Speaker, David Gifford
Sure, it would just be interesting to have a look at that if um yeah um sort of like number of active participants within those budget um breakdowns. Um so can I just ask about some updated data on plan reassessments for the 25-26 year? Um section I believe it's 47A and 48 broken down by um by scheduled and unscheduled reassessments.
I think it's still
uh Senator Scott McNorton, Deputy CEO. Um I have the figures for total plan reassessments. I don't have them broken down by section 47As and 48s, but I can give you total reassessments.
Yeah, sure.
Um so total reassessments in the just the last financial year do you want it by quarter? No, just by the last financial year, the total number of reassessments was 192,633. And then we break that down by where they variations upwards or downwards or stayed the same by quarter. I'm not sure.
Is that information publicly available?
Uh I I've given it earlier in the hearing, I can give it again to you.
No, no, no, no, that's fine. If you've given it early in the hearing, um that's that's absolutely fine. Um can I just uh quickly move to NDI's transport supports and then I'll handle you, though. Page 24?
Senator, can you um just to make sure we've got the right witness if you want to get the specifics of the question?
Okay. Um it's around um data on transport supports paid to participants, and it's particularly in relation to a Senate question the last estimates 000135. So I'm just keen, you provided uh a response to that question, um, but I'm just wondering if there is any more updated information that would include the full 25-26 financial year and the most recent quarter.
We would have to take that on notice, sorry, sir.
Um so just and obviously understanding you'll take that on notice as well. I'd just like to know the total expenditure on transport supports for that period of time, both as a whole for the financial year in Q1 2637 against level one, level two and level three in each of those years. Um breakdown of expenditure and number of participants for those years who received a taxi subsidy up with payment. Um just in that set why um why people may receive an amount for the taxi subsidy in addition to the transport support payment is does that happen and why?
We will take all that on notice though, data range for you, Senator.
Um also are these made as payments or do the people required to reconcile them,
or are they just the level one, level two, level three are periodic payments.
Okay.
The others um there is a claiming provision for some of the others, but the level one, level two, level three are periodic payments.
So you're eligible assessed as eligible for them and you just get paid it.
Yeah, it's it's actually the the old Commonwealth um mobility allowance it rolled into the scheme in 2013.
I thought it was disappearing. Clearly it didn't.
It will need to disappear as part of the policy. It will need to be reviewed as part of the policy settings into new framework planning, but at the moment it exists.
Okay. Um and also an update on the debts owed to the NDIA by both participants and providers. I think the last debt level that was provided was March, the March quarter in 2026. So the last two quarters.
We can take the Mr. Danta might have some current debt information, but we can take that on notice.
Yeah. And also in that sense, the amount that's owed, the number of providers, the number of participants, um the active repayments that are in place and interested to understand how those debt repayments are managed within the agency. Um if you're able to provide um any level of detail about the debt amounts, for example, how many providers within the bands of uh the amount? Okay, Chair, I'm happy to hand over to my colleague, unless there's somebody else who's no further questions from us.