Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs In its mid-year budget update, the federal government announced it would spend $1 billion to reboot assessments, hoping to spend a little to save a lot more.LoadingThe equivalent of half a million people are projected to work for the NDIS in some way by next financial year. Of those full-time equivalent positions, 311,000 are solely working for the scheme.A taste of the impact of cuts came late last year, when the job security of hundreds of art and music therapists was threatened after several providers in discussions with the NDIS were left with the impression funding would end.Shorten was forced to clarify the changes would instead cap funding and, for renewed funding, require participants to provide evidence the therapy was working.It’s a tricky exercise for Shorten to boast about the size of the scheme after spending years highlighting widespread rorting. His arguments that the NDIS has diversified and boosted the economy may have merit, but are largely friendless among the economist class.The NDIS may be one of modern Labor’s biggest reforms, but the unwieldy scheme has come at a big cost that politicians will spend years wrangling.Bevan Shields sends an exclusive newsletter to subscribers each week. Sign up to receive his Note from the Editor.
