NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) is a way that started to give supportive services to the Australians who experience significant and likely permanent disability. This support is intended to provide relative relief to the victims, those giving them care or their families. Campbelltown is one of the areas where this scheme is operational since it is in the Australian Capital Territory that is among gazette areas to get the services of this scheme. People experiencing disabilities are very many as a result of accidents, sicknesses and disasters. Giving support to whoever is affected would leave out the ones in critical conditions and with dire need for such support. To do this fairly therefore, certain considerations were officially identified so that whoever meets them will be the rightful beneficially:
· The eligible beneficiary should be an Australian with legal citizenship or residential credentials or that one in possession of visa. This is a requirement which ensures that one has a right to enjoy the privileges meant for those whose well-being is in the hands of the Australian authorized systems.
· Furthermore the person should be under 65 years of age. Those in such an age bracket still have a very productive life, have families or will have them, so they surely deserve that support so that they can achieve what a normal person is expected to realize at different stages of life or at least part of them.
· It is also meant for those whose impairment is likely to be a permanent one. This support should be able to reduce the extent to which the victim relies on care-giver’s support because if it is to be a life-time condition, this helper might give up as it will be strenuous to support the victim. It is also regarded as “early intervention” because it sets a fairly bearable future for the impaired person.
· The person’s eligibility is also based on whether the assistance to be given will enable him/her to move in case the condition rendered them immobile. Someone who keeps in one position is a burden to himself and those who care for him. Therefore NDIS Campbelltown comes in to help in such situations.
· Those who need supportive equipment to enable them have meaningful and purposeful lives do qualify to get the services; for example if the equipment is a means to enable the disabled do a daily job through which he earns and plans, help his understanding abilities, associate with other people without being emotional and many others which manifest productivity in such a person’s life.
· The beneficiary more so qualifies if it is deemed that the support will bar his condition from worsening and it ably complements the care-givers effort to reduce his/her burden.
Generally, it is a wonderful scheme and has granted immense support to the beneficiaries. Their services restore hope and in certain instances prove that disability is not inability. By having clear guidelines, it has helped to identify those who urgently need to be supported.