6National specific purpose payments for disability services for 2019‑20

6 National specific purpose payments for disability services for 2019‑20

(1) For the purposes of subsection 13(4) of the Act, the total amount under paragraph 13(2)(c) of the Act is to be adjusted for the 2019-20 financial year by: (a) excluding from that total amount financial assistance relating to States that have fully transitioned to the NDIS; and (b) indexing the amount remaining in the manner set out in paragraph D28 in Schedule D to the Intergovernmental Agreement, using the estimates published in the 2019-20 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (resulting in the amount remaining being indexed using a growth rate of 4.60 per cent).

Note 1: Paragraph D28 in Schedule D to the Intergovernmental Agreement provides that the growth factor for national disability specific purpose payments as the rolling five-year average of year-on-year growth in nominal gross domestic product.

(2) Under paragraph 13(2)(c) of the Act, the total amount of all financial assistance payable under subsection 13(1) of the Act to the States for the 2019-20 financial year is $174,404,651.93. (3) For the purposes of subsection 13(5) of the Act, the manner in which the total amount stated in subsection (2) of this section is to be divided between the States is the manner set out in the Intergovernmental Agreement, as affected by any agreement between the Commonwealth and one or more States relating to the NDIS. Each item of the following table specifies the resulting amount that is to be paid to the State specified in the item, for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance for the 2019-20 financial year, for the purpose of expenditure on disability services: