Assistance Animal statistics and data

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Dear National Disability Insurance Agency,

I would like the following statistics provided please for the period to June 30, 2023:

How many assistance dog applications and dog guide applications has the NDIA received by year and state breakdown for the past five years?
How many were accepted and funded for full costs? How many were rejected?
How many were accepted for maintenance funding? How many were rejected?

How many applications for assistance animal funding were lodged at the AAT? How many of these were funded and how many declined prehearing? How many were funded on decision by the Member? How many were rejected at full hearing?

Supply the information by year and state/territory breakdown along with breakdown of dog guide and other assistance dog numbers please.

Has the NDIS received applications for non canine assistance animals? If so how many and what species?

Yours faithfully,
Lisa Robinson

foi, National Disability Insurance Agency

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Dear Lisa Robinson

 

Freedom of Information Request: Acknowledgement

 

Thank you for your request of 13 October 2023, made under the Freedom of
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Dear Lisa Robinson

Thank you for your request for information.

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Thank you.

 

Kind regards

 

Kylie 

Senior Freedom of Information Officer

Governance, Risk & Legal - Complaints Management and FOI.

General Counsel Division 

National Disability Insurance Agency

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The NDIA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout
Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We
pay our respects to them and their cultures and to Elders past, present
and emerging.

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