it's not welfare. it's work.
NDIS plans can fund work with purpose, structure, and a payslip.
Yes — NDIS Employment is a thing, but it's not a single program or funding line. It refers to the range of employment-related supports available to NDIS participants to help them prepare for work, get a job, and stay employed.
Employment supports can be funded through a participant’s plan — under different categories, depending on their age, goals, and circumstances. But too often, this funding is misunderstood or misused. Some providers turn them into years of preparation without progress.
The NDIS was never meant to be charity. It’s not a handout, and it’s not there to keep people in programs forever. As Minister Bill Shorten put it, “The NDIS is not welfare — it’s an investment in people with disability, so they can participate fully in the community and in work” (June 2024).
That distinction matters. Because when employment stops being treated as optional, and starts being treated as a right, everything shifts — expectations, outcomes, and futures.
- Only 48% of working-age Australians with disability are employed, compared to 80% of those without disability.
- Young people with disability are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers.
- Many school leavers with disability face a five-year gap between education and their first paid job.
The numbers don’t lie.
Too many young people with disability are stuck in the gap between education and employment — not because they can’t work, but because the system doesn’t expect them to..
It’s time to change the stats — not by talking about employment, but by creating it. One supported role at a time.
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