Australia news live: NDIA spent $170m over three years on legal fees fighting participants, Senate estimates hears

Key points

• From 53m ago 02.01 BST NDIA spent $170m in three years on legal fees fighting participants Cait Kelly The government has spent $66m this financial year to fight NDIS participants appealing decisions about their packages, up from $60m the previous year and $44m the year before that, Senate estimates has heard.
• Asked how many cases were submitted to the ART, NDIA deputy CEO Matthew Swainson said: double quotation mark So, in the 25-26 year to date, that’s to the end of March, we had 6,998 matters received.
• In the 24-25 financial year, we had 7,137. In 23-24, we have 4,044 new cases received.
• We resolved 1,979 applications in the last quarter.
• 96.9% of those were resolved prior to a hearing.