After you meet with the NDIS to speak about the supports you need to achieve your goals, you will receive an individual plan. It will include details about your personal goals and needs, details about the supports you will be funded for, and how much funding you will receive for these supports.

At the moment, eligibility is determined by three things, your:

• age –  People have to be between 0-65 years of age to sign up to the NDIS
• residency status
• disability

The NDIS will fund ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports needed to meet your needs and achieve your goals. Depending on your goals, the funding in your plan may include the following:

• Core funding– funding that covers functional support needs for daily living and participation and to access community supports and activities.

• Capital funding– funding that covers the purchase of one-off items such as equipment, technology or modifications. It also includes funding for Specialist Disability Accommodation.

• Capacity funding– funding that supports skill building, training, learning, capacity building, accessing employment, improving health and wellbeing and support coordination.

The NDIS will only fund reasonable and necessary supports needed to meet your needs and achieve your goals.

The NDIS will not replace funding from mainstream services such as education, health, medication or other community services. For example, if you have a disability and need a wheelchair to get around, this will be funded by the NDIS, but it will not pay for medications you need due to having allergies for example.

The NDIS will also not fund anything that is:

• likely to cause harm to you or pose a risk to others

• unrelated to your disability

• part of day-to-day living expenses incurred by the general public and not related to disability support needs (rent, groceries, household bills, etc.)

• related in any way to income replacement.