“In some Australian suburbs, NDIS providers now “outnumber cafes” as the government grapples to get a handle on billions of dollars in fraud flowing from taxpayers.
There are nearly 48,000 active NDIS providers listed on the official website.
Some suburbs have drawn attention from social media users in recent days. Lakemba, in western Sydney, for example, lists more than 1300 NDIS providers within a five-kilometre radius — or one for every 13 residents.
Casula, in southwest Sydney, shows more than 1600 providers.
While many of the providers are clearly legitimate, there are also providers that have listed bogus details on the NDIS website — including one that gave its email address as “[email protected]” and its phone number as “0400 000 000”.”
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This is excellent analysis, so kudos to whoever researched this.
This sort of reasearch is very strong evidence that the NDIS scheme is being rorted.
The scheme has quickly become a massive black hole in terms of government expenditure.
Whilst it’s hard to take a broad brushed stoke to such a scheme as every assessment is unique, People First will lobby to weed out fraudulent providers and medical professionals, remove private equity and foreign owned providers and lower profit margins on services provided to no more than a reasonable margin of around 5%.
Hey everyone, I’m going to meet with a whistleblower who has evidence of six NDIS providers corrupting the system and misusing our tax dollars. My goal is to expose and take them down.
After the NDIS refused to even listen to her complaint, and the police did nothing despite her life being threatened, it’s now up to us to make sure her voice is heard.
So @DrewPavlou and I visited one $3 million house in Bankstown that was registered as the primary business address for an NDIS provider previously accused of compliance breaches by the official NDIS regulator.
An elderly grandmother answered the door and refused to answer basic questions about the compliance breaches on the grounds that she did not have a translator. She very clearly understood what we were saying though because she became extremely agitated and hostile before slamming the door on our faces.
So I went to this NDIS provider today and confronted them about the $250,000 GTR parked out the front. These are the same people who chased us down the street. Luckily, we drove away in time. 😂😂