An individualised living option is NDIS support that helps you live in your chosen home environment in a way that best suits you. It’s not the home itself.

You can share your home with housemates, or you might live in the home of a host

Learn more about what individualised living options can look like

There are lots of choices about how you structure your individualised living option. This includes a mix of both NDIS supports and informal supports such as family, friends and other networks. We can provide funding for NDIS supports that we approve in your NDIS plan, for your disability support needs. But we won’t provide funding for things if it’s reasonable for your informal supports to help you.

Funding for your Individualised living option is added to your plan in two stages. The first stage is all about exploring and designing the individualised living option supports you want and need. You’ll work out where you want to live, who with, what support you’ll need, and who you want to provide that support.

The second stage is support to put those things in place. The support depends on how and where you want to live, and what supports you need. This could include things we don’t fund, like the support you get from friends and family. You can change your individualised living option supports if your needs change. They’ll be designed to provide the safety, stability and flexibility you need.

Individualised living option supports don’t include support for activities outside your home, such as work or study, playing sport or going out. If you need NDIS support for these activities, we’ll include it in other parts of your plan. You may also need separate NDIS support for other home and living supports like home modifications. 

We’ll need to make sure all the supports in your plan meet the NDIS funding criteria for you.

Learn more about NDIS supports for home modifications, work and study and social and recreation activities.

What support could your individualised living option include?

These are some examples of supports your individualised living option could include:

  • NDIS supports to make decisions like where you want to live and supports you need to make that happen
  • Personal care
  • NDIS supports to set up and manage your own home
  • NDIS supports to build your independence
  • NDIS supports to build and maintain connection with others
  • NDIS supports to help with making day-to-day decisions
  • NDIS supports to manage your emotions or behaviour
  • Unpaid informal supports like neighbours or carers who help you on a regular basis
  • People who you call to help you when you need it (on-call)
  • Training for the people who support you.

Learn more about supports that are NDIS supports.

What’s not covered by individualised living option supports?

ILO doesn’t include things that aren’t NDIS supports. It also doesn’t include other home and living NDIS supports, or other NDIS supports that aren’t related to your living situation and may be included separately in your plan.

Some examples could include:

  • Your rent or mortgage repayments 
  • Your everyday costs like food, electricity, and internet bills 
  • Payments for informal supports. This is because payments for informal supports won’t meet the NDIS funding criteria in any situation
  • Supported independent living
  • Specialist disability accommodation
  • Home modifications
  • Support not in your home, for example NDIS support to go to work, study or community activities. We can include this separately in your plan if you need it
  • Funding to develop a behaviour support plan if you need it. We can include this separately in your plan if you need it

Learn more about supports that are not NDIS supports.

This page current as of
17 December 2024
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