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Dear National Disability Insurance Agency,

The NDIA sometimes includes funded supports in participants' NDIS plans which are called 'ABA step-down' supports.

The NDIA also sometimes includes 'ABA step-down' supports in settlement offers to participants who are engaged in Administrative Appeals Tribunal proceedings with the agency.

These supports might be variously referred to as 'ABA step down' or 'ABA support step down', 'ABA step down model', or 'ABA support step down model' (with or without a hyphen between 'step' and 'down').

I seek all information held by the NDIA since 1 January 2023 containing reference to ABA step-down. I am particularly interested in any documentation that:

1) Describes the ABA step down model.
2) Explains under what circumstances this model is or should be included in NDIS participant plans, or offered to participants in AAT settlement offers, and why.
3) Any reasoning or rationale for why ABA supports in NDIS plans should be 'stepped down'.

Please note that I am not requesting copies of any NDIS plans containing reference to 'ABA step down' supports, as I understand that these documents contain personal information about NDIS participants.

I also understand that you will potentially need to search a large volume of documents in order to uncover this information. However, I suspect that because 'ABA' combined with 'Step-down' (or 'Step down') is quite a specific search term, this should not be considered too onerous for conducting your electronic search of documents.

Yours faithfully,

David Wright

foi, National Disability Insurance Agency

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