JJGZ and National Disability Insurance Agency [2021] AATA 2702 (on JADE) concerned an application for review of an NDIS plan by a participant who had been diagnosed with Zlotogora-Ogur Syndrome ,
The plan offered to him by the Agency did not include his requested funding for ‘natural therapies’ and ‘vitamin and mineral supplements’. He sought a review of that plan.
At [40] the Tribunal held:
I find there is no evidence from an appropriately qualified medical practitioner that establishes a relationship between the applicant’s conditions/symptoms associated with his disability of Zlotogora-Ogur Syndrome and the symptoms/health conditions for which the applicant takes natural supplements. It follows that I am satisfied there is no medical evidence before the Tribunal that shows natural therapies assist the applicant to pursue the goals stated in his NDIS plan.
Accordingly the Tribunal was not satisfied that funding for either naturopathy or natural supplements are a ‘reasonable and necessary support’ as required by subsection 34(1) of the Act.