Provider Choice NDIS Funding PACE for Plan Managers User Guide
- August 23, 2024
- Provider Choice
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Provider Choice NDIS Funding PACE for Plan Managers User Guide
Provider Choice is here to help every single Australian in the NDIS find their
way around the scheme more easily.
This includes being a source of guidance for big scheme-wide changes. Like the
new PACE system, which began rolling out to participants nationwide in October
2023.
This is your jargon-free, simplified guide to NDIS funding with PACE that will
help you understand what funding you have in your plan, and what you can use
it for.
How to use this guide
Read this alongside your NDIS plan to match what you see there to what’s in
this guide.
The examples we’ve included won’t apply to everyone. The NDIS will only help
you access something if it meets certain criteria for you and your situation.
This criteria is called ‘Reasonable and Necessary’.
To figure out if something you want is Reasonable and Necessary, see if you
can answer “yes” to all of these questions:
- Is this a product or service I need due to a disability?
- Does it help me meet the goals in my plan?
- Is it reasonable value for money?
- Is there evidence that it will help me?
- Is it something I realistically wouldn’t be able to get from my family or the community?
- Is this something only the NDIS can or should provide for me?
(Not, for example, the education system or healthcare system.)
Core Supports
This type of funding is for helping you with everyday life. Core Supports are flexible. This means you can choose to spend your total budget for this section across the categories below, with some exceptions for Home and Living.
Assistance with Daily Life
- Help with daily personal tasks like hygiene, getting dressed and moving around at home.
- Help with household tasks like cleaning and yard maintenance.
- Meal preparation.*
- Laundry service.*
These are stated supports, meaning they need to be directly written in your plan for you to claim them.
Consumables
- Continence products.
- Low-cost, low-risk items or tech to support your personal care, mobility, communication, vision or hearing.
- Low-cost, low-risk items or tech related to prosthetics or orthotics.
- Sign language training.
- Interpretation or translation supports
Assistance with Social, Economic and Community Participation
- Someone to take you out to your hobbies, classes or social events.
- Group and centre-based activities.
- Specialised support in the workforce.
Core Supports
Transport
- Taxis, Ubers or other alternatives to public transport, if catching public transport is difficult due to your disability.
Home and Living
- Assistance while you’re living in Supported Independent Living (SIL).
- Medium Term Accommodation.
- Support exploring or planning an Individualized Living Option (ILO).
YPIRAC (Young People in Residential Aged Care) – Cross Billing
- Payments to the residential aged care facility where you live.
Capacity Building Supports
This funding is all about increasing your ability to live an independent,
fulfilled life.
Unlike Core Supports, you have to stick to the amount given to you for each
category
Improved Daily Living Skills
- All allied health therapy, like occupational therapy, psychology, speech pathology, physiotherapy, exercise physiology and more.
- Assessments and reports from therapists.
- Supports that help you develop ‘soft skills’ and be independent.
- Training for carers and parents to support their child’s disability.
- Health support from a nurse.
Health and wellbeing
- Dietitian
- Personal training
Increased Social and Community Participation
- Supports or activities that increase your social and communication skills.
- Mentoring or peer support.
- Learning and skill-building opportunities to boost your confidence and ability to be part of your wider community
Behavior support
- Help from a positive behavior support practitioner, to develop a positive behavior support plan with you and your family
Capacity Building Supports
Relationships
- Social skills support so you can have positive interactions with others.
Support Coordination and Psychosocial Recovery Coaches
- Support coordinator.
- Specialist support coordinator.
- Psychosocial recovery coach.
Choice and Control
- Plan management to process your NDIS invoices.
Finding and keeping a job
- Help moving from school to work (School Leaver Employment Support).
- Counselling or career coaching.
- Group programs with a focus on work experience.
Improved Living Arrangements
- Support to help you find and apply for housing or meet rental obligations.
Lifelong Learning
- Help researching or applying for study opportunities after high school.
Capital Supports
This is funding to help you pay for more expensive and big-ticket items and
services.
You can only use it for the specific purpose stated in your plan and nothing
else.
Assistive Technology
- Communication technology.
- Hearing technology.
- Vision equipment.
- Mobility products (lifts, hoists, sit-to-stand chairs).
- Wheelchairs and related items.
- Orthotics
- Prostheses
- Adapted furniture.
- Assistance animals.
- Environmental control systems.
Assistive Technology Maintenance, Repair and Rental
- Short term rental or trial of assistive technology.
- Repair and maintenance of your assistive technology.
- A battery or charger for your wheelchair or scooter.
Specialist Disability Accommodation
- Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is a specially built home that includes all the modifications and inclusions you need if you have very high support needs.
Home Modifications
- Elevators
- Ramps
- Slip-resistant coating on surfaces.
- Other custom-built modifications to your home.
- Certification to approve home modifications.
- Consultations with builders.
- Professionals like project managers or building certifiers.
Recurring Supports
The funding in your Recurring Supports will be paid regularly into a bank account that you choose. You can simply use this funding to pay for the support listed, without needing to make a claim.
Transport Recurring
Taxis, Ubers or other alternatives to public transport, if catching public transport is difficult due to your disability.
We’re PACE ready and here to help
- We have plan management capacity.
- All our systems and processes are updated for PACE plans.
- Rely on us to be across all the changes.
- We can get you signed up within 24 hours
Contact us anytime to find out more about what we do and how we can help you manage your NDIS funding.