The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No 1) Act 2024 (Cth) and National Disability Insurance Scheme (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (NDIS Supports) Transitional Rules 2024 (Cth) commenced on 3 October 2024. These have defined NDIS support and clarify what is and is not an NDIS support (see What are NDIS supports? for more information). They also introduce:
- total funding amounts, funding component amounts and funding periods to old framework plans approved from 3 October onwards
- impairment notices, setting out how participants meet the early intervention or disability requirements, from 1 January 2025 (see Applying for the NDIS)
- new framework plans and support needs assessments (with implementation timeframe yet to be confirmed)
For more information about all of these legislative changes, including when they commence and how they impact participants, please refer to the NDIS website - Summary of legal changes webpage.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), established under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cth) (NDIS Act), is a scheme that provides support to people with a disability.
Eligible participants receive funding that allows them to access appropriate services and supports to assist with their disability and to enable them to participate in social and economic life.
The agency responsible for implementing the scheme is the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), an independent Commonwealth Government agency. The NDIA works in partnership with State governments and local service providers to deliver the NDIS around Australia.
As the NDIS is an insurance scheme, assistance from the NDIS is not means tested and there is no impact on the receipt of social security payments such as the Disability Support Pension.
The NDIS commenced in a number of trial sites in July 2013, before a progressive roll-out began on 1 July 2016. The NDIS became fully operational across Australia on 1 July 2020.
The NDIS Act is supplemented by the National Disability Insurance Scheme Rules (NDIS Rules) and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Operational Guidelines (NDIS Guidelines).
For more information about the National Disability Insurance Scheme, visit the NDIS website.
For information on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguards Commission, see NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
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