The federal government will introduce new eligibility criteria for the National Disability Insurance Scheme as part of changes announced by Health Minister Mark Butler on Wednesday.
All 760,000 current participants will be reassessed using the new criteria, and the government aims to remove 160,000 people from the scheme by 2030.
Butler says the NDIS was originally designed to support about 410,000 people. But its current trajectory means that the number of participants will rise to 900,000 by the end of the decade unless action is taken.
