Your plan will continue until it’s replaced by another plan or you leave the NDIS . If you have more than one funding period in your plan, you’ll get access to new amounts of your funding over the length of your plan.
You can ask your my NDIS contact, support coordinator, recovery coach, or contact us at any time if you have questions about your plan.
It’s a good idea to monitor your funding on the my NDIS portal and app . This can help you make sure you’re using the right amount of NDIS supports in your plan. You can also keep track that you or your providers are claiming the right amount of funding for your agreed supports.
We also monitor your plan to check if there are any issues. If something doesn’t seem right, we may contact you to see if there’s anything we can help with.
We may also need to contact service providers or others assisting with your plan. If so, we’ll only do this with your consent.
If you have a support coordinator or recovery coach, they usually need to send us reports during your plan. The reports let us know if your plan is working well for you, or if you need any changes to your plan.
For children younger than 9, we have an Early childhood provider report form to help providers tell us about the supports the child has been given.
How much of your plan funding can you access at once?
When your plan is approved, you can start using your funding straight away. You’ll be able to access any funding where the funding period starts on the first day of your plan.
Your plan will say:
- when each funding period starts and ends
- how much funding you have access to during each funding period
- whether your funding periods apply to the whole plan, or if you have different funding periods for different funding components.
If your plan has more than one funding period, you won’t be able to access all your funding at once.
At the end of your first funding period, any funds you haven’t spent will rollover into your next funding period in the same plan. This means the funding you haven’t used will be added to your new funding period. You won’t lose any funding you don’t spend during a funding period.
You’ll still be able to claim for supports from previous funding periods as long as you have enough funding in your current funding period.
However, your funds will only rollover during the same plan. When we do a plan reassessment and give you a new plan, you won’t keep any unspent funding from the previous plan.