Treasurer Scott Morrison will be looking to fill a $6 billion hole with the Turnbull government reportedly set to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019.
The Australian reports the NDIS funding will be the centrepiece of the 2017 federal budget social policy, set to be revealed when the government outlines its spending plans on Tuesday.
It comes after a bitter political fight with Labor over how to fund the national scheme, which the Coalition argues was not properly funded when the Gillard government established it.
The funding gap, which expands to $6 billion annually from 2019, will be closed by savings measures secured in the Senate this year and further savings in the budget.
There was also a proposal to cover the entire $22 billion scheme through a one per cent Medicare surcharge on the highest-income earners, but it wasn't clear whether the measure made it into the final budget plan.
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