Whaikaha disability support funding: Individualised funding and wellbeing outcomes

Abstract

[From Executive Summary] Disabled people tend to have lower wellbeing outcomes compared with their non-disabled counterparts across a range of dimensions. Providing individuals with greater autonomy over how they spend their Whaikaha funding has the potential to empower individuals to drive their wellbeing outcomes. This report, therefore, uses Stats NZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to examine the wellbeing outcomes of those who receive individualised funding versus those who receive individualised funding (IF) versus those who are eligible for IF but receive only mainstream funding.