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A police taskforce will be established to target organised crime groups allegedly intimidating and exploiting disability scheme participants and defrauding ...

"It's a mystery to me why different parts of government don't talk to each other better … I'm not satisfied there is sufficient communication between the National Disability Insurance Agency, the tax office, policing. "The rest of Australia despises this. "They may think they're tough, some of these organised crime people.

The heartless gangs are using death threats and standover tactics against the intellectually and physically disabled to steal billions from the National ...

The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. In a heartbreaking statement, Mr Gray explained why the NDIS is so important to Ken and his family. Michael Phelan, head of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, said he is 'sickened' by the despicable criminality. Keiko (centre) and Mark Gray are the parents of 23-year-old Ken (left) who has Down Syndrome. Ken's NDIS funding was slashed with no explanation The NDIS was legislated in 2012 and went into full operation in 2020, to fund the costs associated with disability care. Organised criminals are going after some of Australia's most vulnerable in a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme targeting the intellectually and physically disabled.

Bill Shorten says the government will look to launch a multi-agency taskforce into National Disability Insurance Scheme fraud “within weeks” to crack down ...

Mr Shorten said he would be holding urgent talks with the National Disability Insurance Agency on Monday to ensure resources were “what they should be”. “I’m not satisfied that the existing level of resources is what it should be.” Bill Shorten says the government will look to launch a multi-agency taskforce into National Disability Insurance Scheme fraud “within weeks” to crack down on the widespread “scourge”.

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began to be rolled out in 2016, we warned that it would attract an army of fraudsters middle-men ...

Phelan described previous estimates that scheme fraud sits at 5 per cent as “conservative”. The scheme is estimated to grow to $60 billion by 2030. The NDIS currently costs $30 billion a year, and Phelan suggests as much as 20% of that sum could be misused: You’ve got to wonder how far down the scumbag scale you get before you start ripping off our most vulnerable people.”

The NDIS minister says false invoices, organised crime syndicates and overcharging for services are behind exploitation of the scheme.

Yet the minister insists the figure is in the "tens of millions" and not anywhere near the estimate Mr Phelan described. "If we could stop the money being ripped off and we spend instead greater resources on fraud detection that means that we will have a better, more sustainable scheme." "I'm not satisfied the existing level of resources is what it should be ... if we need more resources we're going have to find them because, frankly, it'll pay for itself," Mr Shorten told ABC Radio National on Monday.