We're updating this guideline with new legislation
Here's what's changed:
- We fund NDIS supports that relate to your disability.
- NDIS supports are the services, items and equipment we fund under the NDIS.
Please download the guideline for the latest information, while we update the website over the coming weeks.
Reasonable and necessary supports
There are new laws about what we can and can’t fund under the NDIS. All supports need to meet each of the reasonable and necessary criteria before we can fund them in your plan.
For example, your supports need to relate to the impairments you meet the disability or early intervention requirements for, be value for money, and effective and beneficial. We also need to make sure each support is an NDIS support.
This means it is a service, item, or equipment that can be funded by the NDIS.
Examples of NDIS supports include support with personal daily living tasks and accessing the community, therapeutic supports, and personal mobility equipment.
Note:
- When we say 'your plan' we mean your NDIS plan.
- When we say ‘disability support needs’, we mean supports you need for the impairments that meet the disability or early intervention requirements, or both.
- If you’re aged between 9 and 65 years and are looking for information about community connections, go to Our Guideline – Community Connections.
- If your child is younger than 9 and you’re looking for information about early connections, go to Our Guideline – Early Connections.
- As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we are moving towards a new framework for planning. Rules need to be developed for this new framework. We’re working on how and when we’ll introduce these changes.
Until then, the information in this Our Guideline is about our ‘old framework’ for planning, which include the legislative changes that become operational when the law commences. All current plans will be known as 'old framework' plans, and we will continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework.
Browse the guideline using the links or download a copy:
Find more resources about support categories in accessible formats on the booklets and factsheets page .