Are you looking at your new or renewed NDIS plan feeling confused or thinking ‘what does this all mean?’. Whilst it can be confusing looking through your NDIS plan, we are here to make life easier!
Your NDIS plan is made up of 3 main sections
We have broken these sections down for you below to explain each section so you can understand how to read and interpret your plan.
My NDIS Plan
The front page includes basic details about your plan including:
- Your Plan NDIS Number
- How you like to be contacted
- Your NDIS contact
- NDIS plan start date
- NDIS plan reassessment date
Here is an example of a sample NEW plan:
My NDIS funded supports
Your NDIS funded supports includes all the information about your funding and budget, including your overall plan funding and each individual funding component breakdown.
- Your Total funding Amount – this is the overall budget
- Your Plan Period: the plan start and end date
- The Funding Components: What funded components are included in your plan
- How each component is managed. E.g. Plan Managed, Agency Managed or Self Managed
- Total Funding Amount – how much funding you have in this part
- How this part is managed – each part can be different
- Funding Periods – when this funding is made available: date and amount
- Included Support Categories – NDIS categories of services
- Support Details – following this are details of what you can spend this funding on
Here is an example of a sample NEW plan:
Here is an example of a sample NEW plan:
Your funded components each have a seperate section which outline this specific categories:
- Funding amount
- How it’s managed
- Funding period schedule including funding dates, total period and amount released per funding period
- Support details: What supports are funded in this component
This gives you an idea of how you can manage this budget and funding component and what supports you will access in this budget
Here is an example of a sample NEW plan:
In all NEW plans the NDIS have introduced Funding periods. You will find a Funding period schedule with each funding component. The schedule essentially tells you how much funding you have available for that category throughout your plan. In other words, your funding is not all released at once, but rather in ‘intervals’ or periods.
Each schedule will show:
- Funding period – start and end date of each period
- Length of your each funding period
- Funding amount – How much funding is released in each period – this is how much funding you have available to spend throughout these dates
Any unspent funding in a funding period will rollover to the next funding period, but will NOT carry over to a new plan.
Funding Period Example
Here is an example of what a funding period schedule will look like in your new plan. This example is for Psychology.
For more information on ‘Funding periods’ – check out our resource HERE
About you
These details were discussed in your NDIS plan meeting and helped to determine what supports and level of funding you have been given:
- Your goals – what you want to achieve in this plan period
- Your supports – who is currently helping support you both formally (mainstream and community supports) and informally (family, friends, peers)
- How to contact the NDIS if anything changes
- How to understand your plan
Here is an example of how the goals appear in a sample NDIS plan:
