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Means testing anyone else nervous? :(

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hey everyone, anyone else worried about all the means testing stuff getting spoken about? I understand a lot of people see holding down a job as a privilege but I wouldn't be able to do it at all without support that I receive. I massively rely on support workers as well as my OT for skills building.

I don't want to go backwards. They haven't said for sure it will happen or what the amount of money will be but I'm worried it will be some stupid low amount that no one could support themselves on.

I have no family to rely on and never have. I live alone in an apartment due to trauma I haven't been able to have house mates just yet. Now its like wow the risk of losing my ndis because I maybe make too much money is terrifying. I also have severe chronic pain and fatigue so I can't even clean myself.

Legit only work because I've got so much backing. I get there are "rich" people on the sceme but why should the rest of us suffer for that tf.

Anyway. Anyone else worrying about this stuff? I was worried before hand getting kicked off just because it seems they hate people with Autism these days but now I have to worry about being kicked off for having a job.

In the past I nearly went on the disabilty pension because of how bad my life was going but I spent 1.5k per month in medication and doctors alone not even bills or anything. I couldn't pick up the slack and pay people privately. The Medicare gaps for OT phych etc is so shit too.

I wonder if this huge NDIS push in the media is because of all the provider fraud. Again what's that got to do with us participants.

Posted Apr 8, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

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