That ICPA (Aust) advocate against the changes to travel allowances for allied health providers under the 2025–26 NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits, as these cuts pose a significant risk to the delivery of essential support services for students with disabilities in rural, regional, and remote communities.
With these changes, providers will face limits on the travel they can claim when supporting students in harder-to-reach areas. This poses a major threat to clinicians working in rural Australia assisting students with a disability, where long-distance travel is a necessity, not a choice and public transport is often non-existent. The long-distance travel can become a barrier to the student receiving the much needed allied health care to assist with their education. Rural students should not be penalised because of where they live when it comes to gaining allied health care. Every effort needs to be made to ensure appropriate care is available without any barriers.
