NDIS Provider Newsletter: Funding Period Introduction
Today, 16 April 2025, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) released a provider newsletter. This newsletter included an upcoming implementation of Funding Periods into Participants Plans. Below is a snippet from this Newsletter.
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Total funding amounts, funding components amounts and funding periods
From the middle of May 2025, and in accordance with recent legislation changes, all new plans approved will include total funding amounts, funding component amounts and funding periods.
- Total funding amounts – is the total sum of funding in all support categories in a plan.
- Funding periods – define how often a participant can access a portion of their total budget or funding component amounts.
- Funding components – are the supports categorised into groups and will align to support categories.
Providers will see changes to the way plan and budget information is displayed in the my NDIS provider portal, in line with the current consent and visibility settings for providers. The provider learning environment has been updated to include new tutorials.
These changes impact new and existing participants upon new plan approval, it will not be retrospectively applied to existing plans.
Learn more about the changes to NDIS legislation.
Review latest events to attend a provider information session on these changes.
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Source: NDIS Provider Newsletter 16 April 2025
DIA has many questions for the NDIA on how this will be implemented and will publish more on as the implementation of funding components and periods becomes clear.
DIA is a members-based organisation. We are only able to do the work that we do because of the ongoing support of our members. Thank you to all DIA members that continue to support the work we do. If you’re a provider delivering Support Coordination or Plan Management are not yet a member, you should consider joining. Click here to join from our homepage.