Department of Social Services
Easy English
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find more information.
Contact information is at the end of this book.
Acknowledge means we understand the importance of First Nations people's
culture
language
history.
First Nations people are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
This book is from the Department of Social Services.
We are part of the Australian public service.
This book is about the National Disability Insurance Scheme or NDIS.
The NDIS gives services and support to people with permanent disability.
Permanent disability means a disability that will not go away.
The NDIS also gives services and support to people who need early intervention
Early intervention means we work with some people now so they need less support later.
This book is about some new rules we made for NDIS budgets.
NDIS budgets means how much NDIS money you get.
We want to make sure your NDIS money
does not run out
and
is spent on the best NDIS supports for you.
Our new rules have 3 parts.
Your NDIS plan says
how much NDIS money you have for the NDIS supports you need
and
what NDIS supports you can spend your NDIS money on.
We call it your total funding amount.
Your total funding amount depends on
what NDIS supports you need
how much your NDIS supports cost.
We will make groups of NDIS supports.
We call these groups funding components.
Your NDIS Budget comes from your funding component amounts.
We will think about a lot of things when we make your groups of NDIS supports.
For example, we will think about
what an NDIS support is for
who will manage your NDIS money
who will give you NDIS supports.
You will get NDIS money for each kind of NDIS support you need.
How much money is in your funding components will depend on
how many NDIS supports are in each group
how much your NDIS supports cost.
How long your NDIS money lasts for is called your funding period.
Your funding period might go for
1 year
or
less than 1 year.
Different groups of NDIS supports might have
different funding periods
the same funding periods.
We will think about a lot of things when we decide how long your funding period should be.
For example, we will think about
if some of your NDIS money might be spent on things that are not in your NDIS plan
how much money is in your total funding amount
if someone might try to exploit you.
Exploit means someone spends your NDIS money on themselves.
Call 000 if you or someone you know needs help now.
Call Lifeline Australia for crisis support and suicide prevention.
Call 13 11 14
Call Beyond Blue for mental health support.
Call 1300 224 636
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders can call 13YARN for mental health support.
Call 13 92 76
For more information contact the Department of Social Services.
Email NDISConsultations@dss.gov.au
Call 1300 653 227
Website dss.gov.au/changes-to-the-ndis-act
Read the plain English version online. dss.gov.au/disability-and-carers-programs-services-ndis-reforms/s.33-plain-english
Use the free Translating and Interpreting Service or TIS to make a phone call.
You can call the TIS in your language.
Call 131 450
Give the TIS officer the phone number you want to call.
Use the National Relay Service to make a phone call.
You must sign up to the service first.
Website accesshub.gov.au/nrs-helpdesk
Call 1800 555 660
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