We describe the NDIS supports in your plan using support categories. Each support category in your plan includes a definition of the types of supports you can use this funding on. We also group these support categories together in one of four support budgets. The support budgets are:

  • Core supports: NDIS supports to help you with everyday activities, like help to take part in activities in the community.
  • Capacity building supports: NDIS supports to help you build your skills. This may increase your independence and reduce the need for the same level of support in the future. Your progress and outcomes from these supports will be shared at each plan reassessment.
  • Capital supports: NDIS supports including high-cost assistive technology, equipment, vehicle modifications, home modifications and specialist disability accommodation.
  • Recurring supports: NDIS supports that are paid by us on a regular basis. Your funding for recurring supports will be paid regularly to your nominated bank account. This funding is not included anywhere else in your budget.

You can learn more about support budgets and support categories on the NDIS website.

A funding component amount in your plan might include funding for more than one Core support category. This means you can choose how you want to spend your funding across all the supports under that funding component amount.

For example, in the same funding component amount we can include any funding for:

  • transport
  • consumables
  • assistance with daily life
  • assistance with social, economic and community participation.

This lets you choose how to use your funding for your Core supports.

We can describe the NDIS supports in your plan as either flexible or stated, based on NDIS laws.

When your NDIS supports are flexible, we describe the support generally. This gives you greater flexibility over what NDIS supports you can buy.  You can usually choose what NDIS supports to buy within the descriptions for each support category. We describe most support categories as flexible when we can, so you have more choice about the NDIS supports you can buy with your flexible budgets.

For example, we could include flexible funding in your plan for the support category ‘assistance with daily life’. You can use this funding in the way that suits you to pay support workers to help you in your daily life, like support with household cleaning or preparing meals, as long as you are buying supports that are NDIS supports for you and are in line with your plan.

When your NDIS supports are stated, we describe the support specifically. It means you must buy NDIS supports in the way we have described in your plan.  We’ll be clear when we describe a support category as stated in your plan.

When support categories are described as stated, you have less flexibility. You must use the funding in your plan to buy NDIS supports exactly how we describe them. This includes how the support is provided. For example, we’ll sometimes require the support to be provided:

  • by a particular service provider
  • by a particular qualified person
  • through a particular delivery mode or method, or in a special way.

Some stated supports are more specific than others. More specific supports have less items you can spend your funding on.

For example, we could say in your plan ‘meal preparation must be limited to $200 per month’ or ‘this funding must be used for physiotherapy’.

If you’re not sure how we described the NDIS supports in your plan, ask your my NDIS contact, support coordinator or recovery coach.

This page current as of
10 October 2024
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