NDIS

The NDIS will provide support and services for people living with disability. People will be able to buy services with their individualised funding, to support their social and economic participation and help meet their goals. It is expected to support 460,000 Australians living with a disability when it’s fully rolled out.

The NDIS will:

• be a single national system

• integrate with other sectors such as health, aged care, education and housing

• be administered by a Commonwealth statutory authority, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)

• have no impact on the Disability Support Pension and is not a means-tested entitlement

• double the financial resources committed to disability

• substantially increase the disability workforce

• meet many unmet needs, such as equipment, home modifications, coordination and respite

• provide the individual with purchasing power, and choice and control