all of sudden got text from NDIS calling me and its plan manager, my funds for core got cut in half to about 8k as ADL not really ultilized...transportation is self manage which sent to the bank and how easy to have plan manager because i always goes over.

my plan rollover and they do review and approve new plan hour ago...it kicked in already.

I just saw a post on Facebook saying that yard maintenance and cleaning are also being cut from new plans as they are no longer considered disability related or something. Is this actually true ? I thought it was just social and community participation being cut.

A heads-up for NDIS participants, families, carers and providers: the Australian Government’s consultation on new framework planning and NDIS supports closes Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 11:59 pm AEDT.

The consultation asks for feedback on proposed rules covering support needs assessments, how budgets are worked out, how plans can be used and changed, and updates to the NDIS Supports Transitional Rule. You can respond online, upload a written submission, send a video response or request a phone call.

Read the consultation papers and have your say

These are proposed rules. New framework planning is expected to begin from 1 April 2027 and roll out gradually; participants will keep using their current plan until they move to the new system. The government says draft versions of all eight planning rules will be available for further consultation later this year. More on the timeline.

If you’ve read the papers, what parts do you think need clearer explanation?

Hey, i’m on the old system and have been on NDIS for the past 5 years but haven’t been moved over yet to the new system. Apparently it’s happening to everyone and everyone is loosing funding but I got a letter the other week saying my plan is rolling over again so won’t even be reviewed… is this normal? Should i be prepared to fight for my funding? I don’t have a very big plan…

A recent Dutch doctoral study looked at the administrative burden people face when applying for public support.

A few findings felt very relevant beyond the Netherlands:

• Applicants may need to understand procedures, gather information and make decisions at exactly the time when illness, disability or another difficult life situation has reduced their capacity to do so.
• Previous experience with the system appeared to matter more than education level.
• First-time applicants were especially likely to struggle with the process.

What I found interesting is that the study shifts some of the focus away from whether individuals have the “right skills” and toward whether support systems themselves are designed in a way people can realistically navigate.

Reading some of the experiences people share about the NDIS, I wondered whether this feels familiar here too. Does applying for or managing NDIS support sometimes require exactly the executive functioning, persistence or administrative capacity that a person’s disability makes harder?

Article:
https://humanumi.com/applying-for-public-benefits-administrative-burden/

I was accepted as a participant late last week. Was given outcome over phone, and an initial acceptance letter also sent digitally, to my email following (at my request).

Received a call today by same worker who was seeking my consent to reaccess my file to add categorisation of impairment (initially she said impairment levels), then later impairment category - she confirmed which category she would be adding - and said something had gone wrong on her end following my application processing and acceptance, which meant the information she was seeking my consent to add, was no longer showing in my file.

I confirmed and clarified with her that the phonecall was not a call to put in place my planning meeting, and nor was it an impromptu planning meeting phonecall.

I asked her to give me more information and help me understand what this meant, and whether this was part of the usual process.

I ended up not giving my consent to do so at the time - as I wanted to seek some more info from a either disability advocate group or other support/s prior (still planning to do) - as I didn't want to agree to something which might have consequences for my plan, that I'm not yet aware of, or didn't feel confident in yet.

We agreed that she would call me back in a few days time about the matter, once I'd saught some advice.

Is this normal protocal? Anything I need to be wary of?

Application accepted for Autism/ASD 2, and she noted the category of inpairment she would be filing for my application was 'Neurological' (no other impairment categories to be listed or noted, as far as she made aware).

Thanks.

Hi, has anyone done the $200 NDIS 2 hour call?
Has anyone being paid the $200?
They say it takes 4 weeks to process the payment and it’s being 5 weeks and they’re just saying the same script over and over.

Hi, we are wanting to get an ASD assessment for our 5yr old. They have been on an early intervention plan since before they were 1 for other concerns. Our paediatrician said that we could put the Assessment into our plan, but has since left the practise we are at so I can’t follow up on it.
Has anyone done this?

Thanks ! 🙏

A support worker of my partner received this e-mail earlier in the week. They were then expected to inform all of their clients at the start their next shift with them. We were told this today by the support worker with zero communication from the company. I can't find any other information about this, official or not, and as it's the weekend nobody is available to call. Has anyone else seen or heard anything about this?

I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this scenario. Participant with plan managed funds is funded for SIL. They manage their own employed staff, roster and day to day care. According to the latest definition of SIL it is not SIL so they and the support workers don't need to be registered. They have what is known as a self-directed service.

Now they have been told by NDIS if they are not receiving a SIL service they can't claim SIL funds (the ones with 0138). 80% of their Core budget is under the new 0138 codes.

Options are to get a registered provider to employ his team or get a plan variation to move the funds out of "SIL". Both of which will take time and have their own risks.

I thought the clarification of what is and what is not "SIL" was meant to allow people who run their own service to carry on doing it.

For a bit more context, I provide an admin service that invoices the PM for the total payroll, super, workers comp etc based on his staff timesheets and then makes those payments on his behalf. We had no issue doing it before with the 0115 codes for Assistance With Daily Life.

I’m hoping the NDIS brain trust can sanity-check my reading of the new rules.
I have an existing old-framework NDIS plan that started before 1 October 2026. I’m not looking to have my funded supports changed or request a plan reassessment. I only want to update my Participant Statement of Goals and Aspirations under s 47 of the NDIS Act.
My concern is the wording of s 47: when a participant provides a changed statement, their existing plan is “taken to have been varied” to include the changed version.
With the new s 34A funding-reduction arrangements applying from 1 October, does that deemed variation have any effect on whether the new reduction rules apply to my plan?
My reading so far is that a s 47 goals update varies the existing plan but does not cause a new plan to commence or amount to a s 48 reassessment. Section 34A appears to be concerned with relevant old-framework plans that commence on or after the determination takes effect, and NDIA guidance talks about plans being created or reassessed from 1 October.
But before I touch my existing plan, I’d really like to confirm that I’m not missing another provision, rule or determination that treats a variation as a trigger.
Has anyone looked closely at the legislation/instrument on this, or had a goals-only s 47 update processed since 1 October? Particularly interested in answers with references to the relevant sections/instruments.

My 18 year old son with level 2 ASD and a learning disability had a casual job at a fast food chain, however they have stopped giving him any shifts for several weeks now. He is on the DSP, but would like to find another part time or casual job. He has an appointment with a IES provider in a few weeks, but I don’t have much faith that they will be helpful. Therefore I am wondering what he can use the approx $2500 NDIS funding for under the category for finding and keeping a job. Has anyone else successfully used it, and what did you do?

4 weeks ago I got a lovely call from the NDIS saying they have ammended my Notice of Impairments in the way I had requested - two Impairments added that should have been there from the beginning. Great. Then we had this long conversation where she said that I would be getting extra funding and that a planner would call me and discuss where I wanted to spend the extra funds. I said wow that is great because it's so different than my first plan and my IR and she assured me that that is the way it's meant to work.

Unfortunately I did not get that in writing. 4 weeks later and I email my LAC to ask when the planner will call.

The LAC then said no they don't do that, there is no further funding, and she spoke to the woman who spoke to me and there is no way she said that.

I'm so sick of being gaslit by these people. I've put in yet another complaint about procedural fairness, which you can be sure will bit go anywhere.

I'm paraplegic and can manage personal care myself. I live with my 26 year old daughter, who works full time and doesn't drive.

The bulk of my funding is for community access, because I don't yet drive, a cleaner, gardener, continence consumables and wheelchair services. With the changes I'm sure my plan will be reduced greatly and therefore my ability to leave home regularly. Also taking away the ability to appeal the decision is making me very afraid as I'm sure I'll become more isolated than I already am. 😢

I'm a paraplegic with a lot of other disabilities and I not long had my plan redone due to changes in my circumstances. I had been waiting for nearly 12 months for this to happen. It was my first time going through this process as my plan had just been rolled over since I started on the NDIS in 2019.

I lost my psychosocial part of my plan but the Escalations Planner was nice enough to talk me through everything I need to get it added back onto my plan. It is something that I definitely need and use but I'm really concerned with all these changes that I will lose some of the funding that I was awarded which I also need.

So I was wondering if anyone has any idea if doing a review of certain areas of a plan can effect the remaining part? I hope this makes sense.

Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know when the NDIS portal, which I am accessing via the myGov portal, will be fixed?

I'm a participant and I live in NDIS funded SIL home. I've been in this particular companies care since May 2024. It's been an absolute nightmare from the beginning, so much has gone wrong, astonishing levels of incompetence across the board. This time, for the past 3 days, one of the SIL workers has been coming in with some kind of respiratory infection, flu or something. I'm now sick, I woke up this moring with a sore throat and now tonight I'm clogged up, coughing and sneezing. I have autonomic neuropathy, my health has been in decline for a number of years and I do not know how much of an insult my body can physically take. This may actually break me. Is there any official policy around stuff like this? I don't feel safe approaching this companies management. I don't know what to do.

Scenario (self managed): a family manages the NDIS by themselves. The OT specialist provides services, then they give the invoices, the family pays.

Then the family uploads invoices and other details. Then the NDIS pays.

Above is the scenario, now, is the OT's right to ask for the ndis details and end dates? OT prefers NDIS clients (you know) and I am always against it, why should they care whether the family got NDIS or not. They do mention the ndis codes on the invoice. Is it mandatory for them to know whether the client has got NDIS or not? The OT is not shady but I hate the idea they prefer clients with NDIS.

Hi all,

I am trying to make a claim on the NDIS and have received this message -

'The claim amount you have entered is more than we would usually expect for Assistance with Social, Economic and Community Participation. Please check this is correct.'

The invoice is from Mable and has two weeks worth of support hours due to my support worker not submitting her hours in time.

If I proceed will I get flagged by the NDIS?

I would rather fly under the radar at the moment given what is currently going on with all the changes and reviews and what not.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Cheers :)

So I don’t know if this is allowed here, but I’ve recently come across a company that is just making me so mad. I’ve been a support worker for over a decade - my background is social work, which I started back in 2002 after I graduated college.

With You Support Services is run by a gentleman by the name of Phil Courtis. From what I’ve seen, Phil appears to have been involved in campaigning for One Nation. He has posted online expressing strong criticism of socialism, including views about what he believes it could do to Australia. He is also involved in providing services through the NDIS.

Worse than this - from what I’ve been able to find, he has a Cert 4 from an online provider, and I haven’t been able to establish what prior experience he had. It also appears that his services may be being charged at the full price guide rates.

I’m angry because on one hand he’s involved in providing services funded through the NDIS, and then on the other hand he appears to hold political views strongly critical of socialism.

I don’t know what to do. I don’t know if anything can be done. I’m just frustrated by what appears to me to be a contradiction, and I’d like to understand it better.

Apologies if this isn’t allowed. I needed to vent more than anything.

I got approved for ASD level 2. Instead of getting a planning meeting scheduled like the NDIS letter states, I got an sms at 5.50pm that someone would call within the hour and she called in less than a minute. I had to literally ask her if this was the planning meeting because I was so confused. Then I said that I thought I could have it on phone or in person, as their website states, but I can’t because she’s in WA and I’m in QLD. Also I wanted a support person with me as I struggled to communicate clearly and since my husband was home, she railroaded me into completing it there and then. It really felt like I had no other option, which was very stressful as my 5yo kid was present and we were going to be heading into bedtime routine very soon.

For 12mo, I got zero core support, $6.5 in increased social and community participation, $1.2 in choice and control for a plan manager, $8 for improved daily living skills which includes a bit extra at first for the OT functional capacity assessment.

I understand that they want the FCA first to know how much I’m affected, but the problem is both my psychologist and psychiatrist reports discuss my mental health and comorbid conditions like ME/CFS, because in their eyes, my ASD both causes and is worsened by those things. But of course, those are an excuse for NDIS to not fund stuff. No amount of explaining that my immense fatigue comes from autistic burnout and sensory/social/executive function overload mattered. Heck, I’ve been doubting I have ME/CFS and I think I just live in autistic burnout in adulthood.

I’m concerned that even with the FCA, they will still say that many of my impairments are due to ME/CFS. The planner was really stuck on the fatigue and why ASD would need support for things like cleaning or driving. I had really hoped for some help with household stuff or a support worker to help lessen the burden on my husband, who does cares for all 3 of us, does the vast majority of household duties, and has his own health issues so he’s at very high risk of carer burnout.

What’s my best play - to get the FCA and not mention ME/CFS to them, so I can better explain that my fatigue is due to sensory, social and executive function overwhelm, or to focus on getting ME/CFS as a formalised diagnosis to add on to my application?

I honestly don’t even know how to get a formal ME/CFS diagnosis that the government would be happy with as there are no specialists that truly apply. Years ago, I tried to apply for DSP for ME/CFS (before realising I was autistic) and it failed miserably.