The Government has introduced the new Disability Support Services Bill to Parliament, with Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston saying the legislation will provide clearer rules and greater stability for thousands of disabled New Zealanders relying on support services.
Upston said Disability Support Services (DSS) had operated for years without a dedicated legislative framework, making it difficult for people to fully understand eligibility criteria, available assistance, and how funding decisions were made.
“This Bill establishes foundations and sets a clear framework for how DSS operates,” Upston said. “It sets out what the disability support system does, its purpose and how public funding can be used.”
The Government says the legislation will “improve” consistency, fairness, transparency and long-term sustainability within the disability support system, following recommendations made in the 2024 Independent Review.
The Minister stressed the Bill would not alter existing services, funding levels, or eligibility for current recipients. Disabled people, their families and carers would continue receiving the support they currently rely on, she said.
Among the changes, the Bill clarifies the role DSS plays alongside wider support networks, including families, whānau, communities and other public services. It also states that families and whānau remain an important source of support for disabled people.
“This reflects the way that DSS already works,” Upston said. “It doesn’t mean that DSS won’t help where disabled people’s families support them.”
The legislation also responds to a December Supreme Court ruling that found two people paid to care for family members were employees of the state. Upston said the Bill would not affect those claims but claimed there were “better ways” to recognise carers than classifying family members as state employees.
She confirmed further work was underway on additional support measures for carers, with more announcements expected soon.
“This Bill doesn’t affect those two successful claims however I believe there are better ways to recognise and support carers than treating family members as state employees. I have commissioned further work in this space and will be consulting on a package for carers. I expect to make further announcements soon to better recognise support for carers.
“This Bill also builds on our previous work for carers. For the first time, support for families’ and carers’ needs, including respite options for carers, are now part of the assessment. From 1 April 2026, disabled people with flexible funding gained more choice and control over their supports.
The Government says recent reforms have already introduced a nationally consistent assessment process and expanded flexibility for disabled people using flexible funding arrangements. Support for carers, including respite care options, has also been incorporated into assessment processes.
Upston said the Government had committed a record $2.1 billion in additional disability support funding across the past two Budgets.
The Bill will now go through its first reading before being referred to Parliament’s Social Services and Community Committee for further consideration.
Disability Support Services currently supports around 55,000 disabled people through community and residential care services, while about 100,000 people access environmental support products to help them live independently. The system also funds Child Development Services for approximately 26,000 disabled children annually.
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I agree ACC is not perfect…but….there is one significant difference between ACC and DSS that if eliminated would virtually end this perennial and seemingly perpetual issue.
ACC clients have “entitlements”. DSS clients have “eligibility”. Huge difference.
Assess the person. Allocate resources according to the actual needs to enable the person to have some semblance of a normal life and maintain safety and health.
Pay the person providing those supports…regardless of relationship and residence.
Treat family carers like any other carer.
I hate to think how much ‘resources’ have gone towards fighting this since at least 1999.
And family carers keep winning.
Let’s read between the line here…
Lex Luxon quietly passed into law that those New Zealanders who are on the Autism Spectrum (ie the PC term is…’Neuro-Diverse’..) cannot receive any DSS or any other form of monetary support or benefit(s) IF THEY OWN THEIR OWN HOME!!!!!!!!!!
WTF is THAT????
In other words, if an Autistic New Zealander inherits a home after the last parent dies, then their support mechanisms are CUT-OFF by the government’s MSD and DSS, as they now own a home via inheritance.
WTF is an Autistic New Zealander to do?
The bald-headed ‘Minion’ Lex Luxon thinks that they should sell their homes so that the government entitlements thru the various entities won’t have to pay legal ENTITLEMENTS based on their NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION(S) WHICH WILL NEVER CHANGE!!!
WHERE THEN WILL A HOMELESS & DISABLED AUTISTIC PERSON LIVE WHEN THE MONEY FROM THE SALE OF THE HOME RUNS OUT!?
THIS is following a narrative much like the recent Firearms Reform that touted that many Firearms Laws & Codes would be overturned / abolished that Jabcinda Ardern put in place under her gun-grabbing Communist Labour Party.
Well, NOTHIING GOT OVERTURNED, AND MORE INCONVENIENT REQUIREMENTS WERE PUT IN PLACE, IE BEING RE-INTERVIEWED BY THE COPS, YOUR REFEREES LOSING TIME & MONEY GOING THRU AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SAME, REGISTERING YOUR FIREARM, AND PROVIDING AMMO PURCHASES TO THE COPS! As Firearms Owners, we were expecting that the damage that Ardern did would be un-done, and that Nicole McGee was on the side of the Firearms Owners. In the due course of action, it has now been proven that nothing could be further from the truth. The enforcement of the same was further enhanced since that same Minister also held the portfolios of the Courts and the Justice Ministries. Can you see how all of this is…’baked-in’?
So, now we have Louise Upston stating that the DSS *scheme (*scam…) will provide for greater services.
What will this entail?
More obnoxious government intrusions into personal lives?
Attempts to frame carers and parents for abuse and neglect? Similar to the Speech Language Therapist pushing her way into your home under the guise of providing SLT to your child, and then conspiring to file secret reports on the parents and family structure with half truths and outright lies in order to formulate the removal of the Autistic child with the help of MoE and the MoH orchestrated by certain elements who targeted a family for whistle-blowing?
(NOTE- if the bastards can come at you ditrectly, they will then target your child / children!).
So, what I see here is typical of a Uni-Party Ops that will;
1. Intrude on the Disabled Person and their home in order to formulate the removal of their LEGAL ENTITLEMENTS DUE TO THEIR BORN-WITH CONDITION(S);
2. Provide ‘Wrap-Around’ services that very few will qualify for, and will most likely be administered by an NGO that has no real legal accountability:
3. Sharing info on the Disabled Person with other entities without notifying the Disabled person or the carers what is going on ‘behind the scenes’:
4. Tightening the DSS ENTITLEMENT(S) REQUIREMENTS and making the same difficult to continue or apply for initially due to MEANS TESTING and ASSET DISCLOSURES!
5. Assigning GUARDIANS AND GUARDIANSHIP OVER THE DISABLED PERSON THUS OVER-RIDING THE PARENTS, WHANAU, WITH THE GUARDIANS THEN GETTING A COURT ORDER TO TAKE OVER THE PERSON’S LIFE, BANK ACCOUNTS AND ASSETS AND THEN SELLING THE HOME IF THE DISABLED PERSON INHERITED THE SAME, AND PLACING THE PERSON INTO ‘STATE CARE’..!
We all know how that works-out…!!! And…we all know who and what is probably responsible for the same…!!!
(Hint: Hiram Abiff, Jubalo, Jubalum & Jubalah, and Hymie Kablotz; all deeply embedded in the MoE, MoH and ..’Just-Us’ Systems of G.A.O.T.U. & Luciferian Saturnalians!).
https://thepolicyobservatory.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/74309/Hilary-Stace-report-on-disability-policy-v3.pdf
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/autistic-man-released-after-three-months-solitary-confinement-in-hospital/CGCKJ5OPBZEYTDV33KE3C3RGFQ/
https://communitylaw.org.nz/community-law-manual/test/health-and-disability/mental-health-2/
Darwinism has for too long been allowed to flourish in the British Empire, with New Zealand and Oz being the last hold-outs of the same ie ‘Survival of the Fittest’ which excludes those who are disabled. This became official policy in Germany under Aryan guidelines!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21843187/
https://columbian.gwu.edu/holocaust-killing-centers-historical-nightmare-disabled
WE ALREADY HAVE A MASSIVE POPULATION OF DISABLED PERSONS, NO THANKS TO THE GOVERNMENT-INDUCED BIO-WEAPONISED COVID-19 VACCINE!!!
The next step is another Plandemic to speed-up the death of ‘useless eaters’ and the disabled.
How?
HANTA AND EBOLA; COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!! SO, YOU’LL NEED ANOTHER BIO-WEAPON VACCINE FOR THESE TOO!
So, Ladies & Gentlemen, as you can see, the WEF / WHO / JWO / PTB are doing in trying to hurry-along the de-population of the elderly (via no GRI increases for over 15 years, w/ hyper-inflation causing unaffordable food for the elderly, thus comes starvation and ill-health…), erosion of Healthcare, denial of legal and rightful ENTITLEMENTS FOR SPECIFIC DISABLING CONDITIONS, and countries (Netherlands, Canada, the U.S., etc.) offering EUTHANASIA AS AN INSISTANT CHOICE, BUT IS MANDATORY IN THE NETHERLANDS WHERE DOCTORS (JUST LIKE IN NAZI GERMANY) NOW HAVE THE POWER TO EUTHANISE PERSONS WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT!
IF you have a child in the MoE ‘Pipeline to Prison’ school setting, then get them OUT of the schools, bring them home to a safe & secure environment, and HOMESCHOOL them!
While the MoE does pay a stipend for homeschooling, it isn’t enough, and when no other legal and entitled services are provided, then it becomes a financial strain on the parents / caregivers.
Imagine being the child’s grandparent, living on eroding GRI and trying to care for a disabled grandchild..!
THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THIS SHITSHOW THAT THE GLOBALIST-INSPIRED EUTHANASIA/POPULATION REDUCING PSYCHOTIC UNI-PARTY AND THEIR YAPPY LITTLE MINOR PARTY MINIONS IS TO (wait for it…..wait for it,…!) –
VOTE FOR THE NEW ZEALAND LOYAL PARTY in November! Join the same as well in order to boost their numbers before time runs out!
Hmmm no doubt setting the stage to cut and limit future services. This mob are so predictable.
Huh? That serpent-pit of treacherous professional liars and slimy fraudulent eye-darting reptiles in that foul wasp-nest are telling you that they all of sudden “care” and “want what’s best for the people” ….
What??? Why is this??? OH! THAT’S RIGHT! IT ‘S ELECTION YEAR! Say no fkn more…