Assistance with Daily Life

Supports to assist or supervise the participant with their personal tasks during day-to-day life so that they can live as independently as possible. These supports can be provided individually in a range of environments, including your own home.

Assistance with Social, Economic and Community Participation

Supports to help or supervise the participant to take part in community, social, recreational, or economic activities. These supports can be provided in a range of environments, such as in the community or a centre.

Consumables

Supports to purchase everyday use items that the participant may need because of their disability. For example, continence, low-cost assistive technology and Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) products are included in this category.

Transport

Supports to pay a provider to transport the participant to an activity that is not itself a support – or to a support that is delivered by another provider.

Home and Living

Supports to help you live as independently as possible. We’ll specify what type of home and living supports you can use in your plan. For further information refer to the NDIS Guidelines for home and living supports.

Supported independent living (SIL) helps the participant to live in a home as independently as possible, while building your skills. It includes help or supervision with daily tasks, like personal care or cooking meals. Supported independent living is for people with higher support needs, who need some level of help at home all the time.
Medium term accommodation (MTA) gives the participant somewhere to live if they can’t move into your long-term home because your disability supports aren’t ready.
An individualised living option (ILO) lets the participant choose the home they live in and set up supports in the way that best suits them. It can include things like personal care, help to build your skills, or support with household tasks like shopping or cooking. Family, friends, and other networks can complement your paid supports.
Assistance with daily life tasks provided in a residential aged care facility is funding for younger people in residential aged care (YPIRAC). The NDIS will provide this funding if the participant needs to pay extra daily care or accommodation costs because of your support needs.

YPIRAC – Cross Billing

Funding for some of the participants fees and charges if they are a younger person in residential aged care (YPIRAC). The NDIS has an agreement with the Department of Health and Aged Care to cover some of these costs.

Behaviour Support

Supports to help the participant develop behavioural management strategies to reduce behaviours of concern. This includes specialist behavioural intervention supports to help improve your quality of life.

Choice and Control

Supports to help the participant manage their plan funding and pay for services using a registered plan manager.

Finding & Keeping a Job

Supports that help the participantfind and keep a job. This may include employment-related support, training, and assessments.

Health & Wellbeing

Supports that are directly related to managing the impact of their disability on the participant's health.

Improved Daily Living Skills

Supports including assessment, training, or therapy (including early childhood supports) to maintain, develop or increase the participant's skills and capacity for independence and community participation. These services can be delivered in groups or individually.

Improved Living Arrangements

Supports to help the participant find and keep an appropriate place to live. For example, if you need help with your obligations as a renter or finding somewhere to live.

Increased Social & Community Participation

Supports to help the participant take part in skills-based learning to develop independence in accessing the community

Lifelong Learning

Supports to assist the participant to move from school to further education, such as university or TAFE. Examples include training, advice and support.

Relationships

Supports to help the participant develop positive social skills and interact with others in the community.

Support coordinators and psychosocial recovery coaches

These supports help the participant understand their plan and connect with NDIS providers, community and mainstream and other government supports. These specialists help the participant to build confidence as well as coordinate the participant's supports.
The psychosocial recovery coach support is tailored to the needs of people with primary psychosocial disability, with a focus on coaching and collaborating with other services.

Assistive Technology

Assistive technology is the equipment the participant might need to help you with everyday tasks. Assistive technology may be equipment or items to support a person with a disability to reach their potential at home, in the community and the workplace. This support category is for mid-cost and high-cost assistive technology. For low-cost assistive technology, under $1,500, use the support category Consumables in the Core supports budget instead.

Assistive Technology – Maintenance, Repair & Rental

Supports to repair and maintain assistive technology. This also includes short-term rental and trial of your assistive technology supports.

Home Modifications

Supports to make changes to the structure, layout, or fittings of the participant's home, so they can safely access it and move around comfortably.

Specialist Disability Accommodation

Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is a specially designed house for people with extreme functional impairment or very high support needs.

Transport Recurring

Transport supports paid by the NDIS on a regular basis to the participant's nominated bank account. The participant doesn't need to make a claim for these supports.
This funding is for the participant's everyday transport needs. It can used on any form of transport that suits the participant best, including public transport or taxis.