A man living with a disability who featured in ads across the country for the National Disability Insurance Scheme when it launched has had his own NDIS application rejected.
Jeremy Hawkes, 46, lives with Parkinsonism and chronic pain from a spinal injury, and was cast in a nationwide NDIS campaign in 2013.
Mr Hawkes said when he received a letter this year informing him that his application was rejected, he was devastated.
The rejection letter said he did not meet the scheme's requirements — that he did not have substantially reduced functional capacity in communication, mobility, self-care and self-management.