{"id":410677,"date":"2026-04-22T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=410677"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:34:14","slug":"crime-gangs-infiltrate-australias-disability-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=410677","title":{"rendered":"Crime Gangs Infiltrate Australia&#8217;s Disability Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A parliamentary review by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission reveals criminal networks submitting fake claims, billing during hospital stays or prison, and using intimidation against participants in the $50 billion NDIS program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weak screening lets banned providers return, delivering poor or no care while laundering money through cash withdrawals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A new review has confirmed that the NDIS has been systematically infiltrated by organised crime groups using threats of violence against disabled people. For the love of God, just nationalise the scheme &#8211; completely rip out all the fraudsters by just shutting down the NDIS private markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a disaster. The current design of the scheme is a catastrophe and unfixable. You just cannot run disability welfare as a private market like this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid explosive growth to $63 billion by 2028-29, the government plans caps at 5-6% annual increases, provider registration, and better data use to fight fraud and protect supports without eroding trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid explosive growth to $63 billion by 2028-29, the government plans caps at 5-6% annual increases, provider registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":410678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,921],"tags":[11285],"class_list":["post-410677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-ndis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410679,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410677\/revisions\/410679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/410678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}