A class action against the federal government for excluding over 65s from the NDIS could cost taxpayers more than the bungled Robodebt program.
Older Australians are challenging their exclusion from the National Disability Insurance Scheme in a class action against the federal government that could be the most expensive one on record.
About 330 over-65s have already signed up to the class action in the fortnight since it launched and a “beauty parade” of litigation funders are lining up to finance the case, Mitry Lawyers partner Rick Mitry toldNDIS Minister Bill Shorten has said including the over 65s in the scheme would be “very expensive.”“We are getting people from all over Australia,” Mr Mitry said. “At this stage, it could end up being in the thousands the way it’s going.
There is also a secondary claim for “misleading and deceptive conduct” because of the federal government’s alleged failure to inform people with a disability about the NDIS.Mitry Lawyers estimates the average annual loss for people who cannot access the NDIS is in the tens of thousands of dollars. The average NDIS participant gets $111,000 per year while the means-tested aged care scheme is limited to $56,000.
, which required the Commonwealth to pay $112 million to victims, refund welfare recipients $752 million and abandon the pursuit of another $1 billion in false debt claims.because the program was designed to assist people whose disability was not acquired due to age. The program was also not envisaged as a welfare program, but a targeted scheme to lift the capability and potential workforce opportunities for working-age people with a disability.
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