More than one in five NDIS participants are expected to be moved off the scheme under new eligibility standards to be rolled out from 2028. The assessment tool still needs to be designed and participants, advocates and providers are trying to work out what the changes will mean for them. “It will be an objective tool. It will be scientific. It will be evidence-based. And it will apply to everyone in the same way,” Health and Disability Minister Mark Butler told The Guardian ’s Australian Politics podcast, shortly after revealing the biggest overhaul of the disability scheme since it was launched by the Gillard government. Health Minister Mark Butler announced 160,000 people were expected to be removed from the scheme. Alex Ellinghausen “You won’t have this lottery about whether you can go in and get a report from a specialist, how long you have to wait, how much you have to pay. It will be far more objective and equitable.” The new eligibility scheme still needs to be designed. Nothing is nailed down.…