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NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

By Georgia van Toorn, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Politics, UNSW Sydney

The government plans to cut the number of NDIS users by 160,000 over the next four years. Here’s what we know about how they’ll do that and who’ll be affected.

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