FAQs

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What is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)?

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides funding to people with a disability to access support. The main component of the NDIS is to provide individualised funding to eligible people with a disability.

What does NDIS stand for?

National: The NDIS is being introduced progressively across all states and territories.

Disability: The NDIS provides support to eligible people with intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive and psychosocial disability. Early intervention supports can also be provided for eligible people with disability, or children with developmental delay.

Insurance: The NDIS gives all Australians peace of mind if they, their child or loved one is born with or acquires a permanent and significant disability, they will get the support they need.

Scheme: The NDIS is not a welfare system. The NDIS is designed to help people get the support they need so their skills and independence improve over time.

The NDIS also has a broader role in helping people with disability to:

  • access mainstream services, such as health, housing and education

  • access community services, such as sports clubs and libraries and

  • maintain informal supports, such as family and friends.

What are the main objectives and principles of the NDIS?

The objectives of the scheme outlined in the NDIS Act include:

  • supporting the independence and social and economic participation of people with disability

  • providing reasonable and necessary supports, including early intervention supports, for participants

  • enabling people with disability to exercise choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports

  • facilitating the development of a nationally consistent approach to the access to, and the planning and funding of, supports for people with disability and

  • promoting the provision of high quality and innovative supports to people with disability.

Who is the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)?

The NDIA is an independent statutory agency responsible for administering the NDIS.

What is the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and what is its role?

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the Commission) is an Australian Government agency. The Commission upholds the rights of, and promotes the health, safety and wellbeing, of people with disability receiving NDIS supports and services. The Commission is the dedicated national regulator of providers of NDIS supports and services, to provide national consistency, promotes safety and quality services.

Who can access NDIS supports?

A person who meets the access requirements to become a participant in the NDIS criteria, which includes residency requirements, being under 65 years of age at the time of application and being able to demonstrate a permanent disability that affects everyday life and activities.