NDIS Support Categories
Your level of supports in your plan will be depending on your individual goals.
1. Core Supports
2. Capital Supports
3. Capacity Building Supports
Core Supports Budget
Your Core Supports Budget helps you with everyday activities to achieve your NDIS goals.
Your Core Supports Budget is one of the most flexible, and in most cases you can use your NDIS funding across any of the following four support categories.
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| In your plan | In the Myplace portal | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Assistance with Daily Life | Daily Activities | Support with everyday tasks, such as personal care, household cleaning, or maintaining your yard. |
| Consumables | Consumables | Items you may need regularly, such as continence products or low-cost assistive technology and equipment that will help improve your independence or mobility. |
| Assistance with Social & Community Participation | Social, community and civic participation | Support from a worker to help you take part in social, community, or recreational activities. |
| Transport | Transport |
Funding that helps you travel to work, appointments, or other activities that support the goals in your plan. How this funding can be used - and whether it is paid upfront or in instalments - varies from person to person. Your LAC can explain how your transport budget works. |
| Funding Category | Support Category | Support Name | Support Number | Example items that can be purchased |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORE | Daily Activities | Assistance with Daily Living | 01 | Assistance with self-care, Shared living arrangements (SIL Funding), Household cleaning and/or yard maintenance, Short Term Accommodation, Medium Term Accommodation |
| CORE | Transport | Transport | 02 | General and Specialised transport to School/Educational Facility/Employment/Community |
| CORE | Consumables | Consumables | 03 | Continence products, Assistance dog ongoing costs, HEN equipment, Low-level Low-cost AT |
| CORE | Social, Community and Civic Participation | Assistance with Social and Community Participation | 04 | Group based activities in a centre and in the community, Community access, Supports in employment, Activity based transport |
Capital Supports Budget
Capital Supports include higher-cost pieces of assistive technology, equipment and home or vehicle modifications, and funding for one-off purchases you may need (including Specialist Disability Accommodation).
It is important to remember that funds within the Capital Supports budget can only be used for their specific purpose and cannot be used to pay for anything else.
Note: These items generally require an Occupational Therapist assessment and quotes to be submitted to the NDIA.
If you are on your mobile or tablet you may have to use the scroll at the bottom of the table.
| In your plan | In the Myplace portal | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Assistive Technology | Assistive Technology | This covers equipment that supports mobility, personal care, communication or participation in recreational activities - such as wheelchairs, communication devices or vehicle modifications. |
| Home Modifications | Home Modifications | This includes changes to your home to improve safety and accessibility, such as handrails in the bathroom. It also include Specialist Disability Accommodation for participants who need housing designed specifically for their disability-related needs. |
Capacity Building Support Budgets
Capacity Building Supports help build your independence and skills to help you pursue your goals. Unlike your Core Supports budget, your Capacity Building Supports budget cannot be moved from one support category to another.
If you are on your mobile or tablet you may have to use the scroll at the bottom of the table.
| In your plan | In the Myplace portal | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Support Coordination | Support Coordination | A set amount of funding for a Support Coordinator to help you understand and use your NDIS plan effectively. |
| Improved Living Arrangements | CB Home Living | Support to assist you in finding, securing and maintaining suitable accommodation. |
| Increased Social & Community Participation | CB Social Community and Civic Participation | Training and development supports designed to build the skills you need to engage in social, recreational and community activities. |
| Finding & Keeping a Job | CB Employment | Employment-related supports, including assessments, training and programs - such as school leaver employment supports - to help you prepare for, find and maintain work. |
| Improved Relationships | CB Relationships | Supports that help you develop positive behaviour skills to strengthen and enhance your interactions with others. |
| Improved Health & Wellbeing | CB Health and Wellbeing | Supports such as exercise or nutrition guidance to help you manage the effects of your disability. (Note; NDIS does not fund gym memberships.) |
| Improved Learning | CB Lifelong Learning | Assistance with education transitions - for example, advice, training and support to move from school into further study like TAFE or university. |
| Improved Life Choices | CB Choice and Control | Funding for plan management to help you oversee your budgets and manage payments. |
| Improved Daily Living | CB Daily Activity | Assessment, therapies and training designed to build our independence, skills and participation. These supports may be delivered individually or in a group setting. |
Other Information
Stated Supports – Not Flexible
Supports listed as stated supports are fixed. This means the funding is allocated for a specific service or item, and cannot be used for anything else. You cannot exchange or swap these supports for other types of supports.
In-Kind Supports – Pre-Paid
Supports listed as in-kind have already been paid for by your state, territory, or the Australian government. When you use an in-kind service, your current provider will deliver the support, and you will not need to pay for it using your NDIS plan funds. If you have concerns about using a particular in-kind provider or service, speak with your ECEI Coordinator, LAC, or NDIA planner.
More details about in-kind supports can be found on the In-Kind Supports – Participants page.
Quote Required
If a support is marked as quote required, additional information such as quotes or specialist reports must be provided before funding can be included in your plan.
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