The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was set up as a world first approach to disability support. It puts people with disability at the centre of decision-making, through the principles of reasonable and necessary supports and individual choice and control.
We provide funding for reasonable and necessary supports to people with a permanent and significant disability or developmental delay.
Reasonable and necessary supports are the supports we fund in your plan to meet your disability needs. All supports we fund in your plan need to meet the criteria set out in law for the NDIS of what we can and can’t fund. For information on what is an NDIS support and what is not, go to NDIS support.
NDIS supports should complement, not replace, other supports available to you. That’s why we consider:
- the things you’re able to do for yourself
- support you have from others in your network, including family members, relatives, friends, local community services and mainstream government services.
Once we’ve considered your situation, we need to follow the rules determined under the law for the NDIS in our planning decisions.
This guideline explains how we decide what reasonable and necessary supports must consider, which we’ll explain in detail.
When creating your plan, we also follow these principles.
We also have Would we fund it guides. They have examples of how we decide if we fund different types of supports.