If you’re in one of the following situations, we’ll decide if you’re eligible within 2 to 5 business days.
- Child younger than 7 years with a hearing impairment, either:
- Identified as Hearing Australia or Early Childhood Partner Priority
- Identified as ‘newly diagnosed’.
- A child is identified as having a developmental delay and is turning 6 years old within 30 days of a valid NDIS application.
- Immediate risk to self, others, community or agency where appropriate disability or informal supports are not in place.
- Unexpected, significant deterioration of disability-related functional capacity where appropriate disability or informal supports are not in place.
- Rapid deterioration in functional capacity of a person with one of the following permanent disabilities:
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Brain Cancer
- Motor Neurone Disease (MND or Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
- Progressive Bulbar Palsy (PBP)
- Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
- Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA).
- Imminent risk (within 1–14 days) of breakdown of either:
- Accommodation – risk of homelessness
- Caring arrangements, including informal supports, due to death, serious illness or injury of informal supports, or significant and unexpected deterioration of disability-related functional capacity.
- Appropriate disability supports are not in place and are re-entering the community after a long-term residence or hospital stay (specific release date not required):
- A person with a newly acquired, significant disability, such as spinal cord injury, being discharged from hospital
- A younger person living in residential aged care
- A person being discharged from an inpatient mental health facility
- A person due to be released from correctional facility.