Understanding NDIS Plans: A Simplified Guide
Navigating your NDIS plan can be daunting, but we’re here to clarify. Your plan may include three types of support budgets: core, capacity building, and capital supports, each tailored to your goals and daily needs.
Core Supports: This budget covers essential day-to-day tasks and is flexible across four categories:
- Assistance with Daily Life: Covers personal care, household tasks, and living arrangement support.
- Transport: Funding for transport costs impacted by your disability.
- Consumables: Everyday items and low-cost assistive technology.
- Social and Community Participation: Support for engaging in community and social activities.
Capital Supports: Specific, less flexible funding for assistive technology and home modifications to ease daily living impacted by your disability.
Capacity Building Supports: Aimed at skill development and achieving personal goals, this includes:
- Support Coordination: Assistance in implementing your plan.
- Improved Living Arrangements: Support for finding and maintaining suitable accommodation.
- Increased Social and Community Participation: Building skills for community engagement.
- Finding and Keeping a Job: Support for employment-related needs.
- Improved Relationships: Building social skills and connections.
- Improved Health and Wellbeing: Services for enhancing health and wellbeing.
- Improved Learning: Support for educational transitions.
- Improved Life Choices: Covers plan management costs.
- Improved Daily Living: Funding for therapies and programs to enhance daily independence.
Each category is designed to support various aspects of your life, offering tailored assistance based on your unique needs and goals.
