While we need to think about your individual circumstances and disability support needs, we also need to make consistent decisions and treat people fairly.
This means participants with similar circumstances and disability support needs should receive similar amounts of supports in their plans.
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 supports.
We approve your whole plan, not individual supports in your plan in isolation. Information about the NDIS supports that we’d usually include in your plan helps guide this process.
This information also helps to guide the consistency of our decision-making process. We use it to check your overall plan and make sure all your NDIS supports will work together. We’ll check your support types and amounts will complement each other to help you live an ordinary life.
We may then increase or decrease the funding in your plan based on:
- information you share with us
- any reports or other information we have
- applying the NDIS funding criteria.
This helps keep the system fair for everyone, and ensure we remain financially sustainable.