NDIS
NDIS
What’s cooking? Using your NDIS funding for meal preparation or delivery
Sometimes the nature of disability means you might need extra support when it comes to your meals. For some people, it’s support to identify and follow a nutritious and healthy eating plan. For others, it’s upskilling in the kitchen, which could range from needing support to shop for ingredients through to preparing the meal itself.28 October 2022
Stating the case for supports – functional capacity assessments
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding is designed to support you to live life the way you choose, as an active member of the community and doing meaningful things that are important to you. To understand what level of funding and supports you might need, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) needs evidence of your disability and information about how it changes your day-to-day life.10 October 2022
Live life your way
“A package of supports that lets you choose where and how you live in the way that best suits you.” That’s how the National Disability Insurance Agency refers to Individualised Living Options (ILO), a new type of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding that allows people to explore different ways to live (with friends, family, or a host) and design a support package to help them to live the way they choose.20 September 2022
Those three important words: reasonable and necessary
Before supports can be funded in the NDIS, they need to meet the reasonable and necessary criteria. So what's reasonable and necessary? We explain here.13 September 2022
Three ways to manage a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan - and the pros and cons of each
Did you know there are three ways to manage your National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan? Here is a quick and simple comparison to explain what they are.5 April 2022
Not happy with a decision from the National Disability Insurance Agency? Read on.
My Plan Manager guest blogger Chris explains what you can do if you are not happy with an National Disability Insurance Agency decision.21 February 2022
What do Local Area Coordinators (LACs) do?
Did you know that Local Area Coordinators – or LACs – provide a completely free service that helps all people with disabilities? My Plan Manager recently welcomed Georgia, Community Engagement Facilitator at Mission Australia, to explain exactly what LACs do.27 January 2022About the NDIS
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a way of providing individualised support for people with disability, their families and carers.13 October 2021
The National Disability Insurance Scheme: services and support
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a scheme for people with disabilities and their families. The NDIS provides services and support to those who need them to live an ordinary life.19 August 2021