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Federal Budget is challenging: Economist

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... can and should be able to do better than this." Meanwhile, there has been an upward revision to the expected cost of the NDIS. A further $19.4 million has been provided to extend the Disability Employment Services program for two years. Funding for the ...

IFM Investors PE portfolio carbon neutral

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 11 JAN 2022
... beneficiaries." IFM Private Equity's portfolio companies include Australia's largest National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) My Plan Manager (MPM), Payapps, a Melbourne-based, global Software as a Service (SaaS) provider in the construction and building ...

MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... Mary herself is very confused as to why so many other organisations have recognised her MS but one insurer has not. "I have NDIS help, I'm on a disability pension but CommInsure are arguing whether I have MS? They want to see lesions in the spine ...

COVID-19 could end Centrelink stigma

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... familiar with Centrelink. ClaimRight is a claims administration technology company that is designed to streamline Centrelink and NDIS claims. He hopes a silver lining from the economic havoc COVID-19 has wrought on Australia will be a greater empathy ...

Super fund invests in disability housing

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... and Victoria. The impact fund will receive equity in the properties in return. DPN Casa Capace, a registered provider with NDIS, aims to scale its disability housing model to more than 750 homes in five years and is in discussions with other potential ...

Super gets an insider in ministry reshuffle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... Electoral Matters, while Michael Sukkar steps into the Assistant Treasurer role vacated by Stuart Robert, who takes on the NDIS and Government Services portfolios. Returning to their previous positions are Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Senator Mathias ...

Record Budget spend for older Australians

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... Government announced an additional $84.3 million for the Integrated Carer Support Service. He also committed $22 billion to the NDIS, saying only: "It takes a strong economy to fund the NDIS fully and sustainably."

Australian Unity's wealth business grows

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... previous year. "This outcome is attributable to the costs associated with the continued integration of Home Care NSW and NDIS, the closure of call centre in Parramatta and less activity in the property development sector...," the results report said. ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... introducing a Skilling Australians Fund levy" - and increased spending mainly on infrastructure (National Rail), Gonski 2.0 and the NDIS. The combination of which, along with other variables of course, will deliver real GDP growth of 2.75% in FY 2017/18 ...

Key demographic trends open new doors for advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... in control of their finances. If they're uninsured it places huge pressure on the government, and it's not included in the NDIS," said Inwood. Inwood believes that the advice market could double in size in the next five years if advisers start encouraging ...