FAQ

NDIS plans can include a number of supports that aim to help you achieve your goals, which can include:

• Family and friends – also known as informal supports.
• Services and community groups.
• NDIS reasonable and necessary funded supports.

NDIS also funds reasonable and necessary supports that help you to:

• Pursue your goals, objectives and aspirations.
• Increase your independence.
• Increase your social and economic participation.
• Develop your capacity to actively take part in the community.

In order to be considered a support which is reasonable and necessary, it must:

• Be related to your disability.
• Not be related to day-to-day living costs (not related to your disability support needs).
• Be good value for money,
• Be likely to be effective and beneficial to you.
• Consider the informal supports given to participants by families, carers, networks, and the community.

Daily Living relates to four different support categories: Assistance with Daily life, Transport, Consumables and Assistance with social and community participation.

In your NDIS plan, Daily Living will refer to two or more of these support categories.

This support category funds to assist/supervise personal tasks of daily life to enable you to live as independently as possible. This also includes assistance for people living in a shared environment and can include:

• Personal care.
• Household tasks.
• Cleaning.
• Laundry.
• Meal preparation / delivery.
• Garden maintenance.

These funds are used to help purchase everyday use items. This can include:

• Continence products.
• Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) products.
• Interpreting.
• Translating.

These funds to enable a participant to engage community/social or recreational activities and can include the provision of care as well as activity costs, such as:

• Camps.
• Vacation.
• Outside school hours’ care.
• Course or membership fees.

Any services listed as ‘stated supports’ are not flexible. This means funding has been allocated for a specific support or service, and you can’t use this funding for something else. You cannot swap ‘stated supports’ for any other supports.

If there are supports in your plan that are listed as ‘in-kind’, it means the service has already been paid for by your state, territory or the Australian government. You must use this provider as they have already received payment and will provide all services that are booked. This means you cannot choose a provider for that service, however if you have a concern about using a specific in-kind provider, you are encouraged to raise your concerns with your ECEI Coordinator, LAC or NDIA planner.