Yes, Inebura offers a free Pre-Planning service, where we help people with disability apply for funding and prepare for their Planning Meeting. Visit this page for more information.

Once it is established that you are eligible for NDIS funding, you will have a Planning Meeting with an NDIS Planner or a Local Area Coordinator (LAC). In this meeting you will discuss how your disability affects your day-to-day life, the goals you wish to achieve and what supports will help you. This information is sent to the NDIA who will allocate funding accordingly.

Will I have to pay for disability supports out of my own pocket?
If you have an NDIS Plan, your approved supports will be covered by your funding. If you don’t think your funding is enough to cover the supports you need, you can request a Plan Review at any time. See this page for more information on requesting a Plan Review.

Yes, get in touch with us to speak to an expert about how to apply for, and get the most from your funding.

The NDIS Price Guide lays out the maximum a Support Coordinator can charge per hour of work they do for their clients. Because their services are charged by the hour, the amount will differ from week to week and from month to month

Support Coordination funding is under the Capacity Building Budget of an NDIS Plan. For a temporary period, once this budget has run out, you may be able to use some of your Core Supports budget to pay for additional help. This temporary flexibility was introduced in response to COVID-19 and is likely to remain until September 2020.

If your circumstances have changed, or you think you weren’t approved for enough funding for Support Coordination, you can request an early Plan Review. Find out more on this page.

Although their roles are sometimes similar, and both supports are funded under the Capacity Building budget, Support Coordination and Plan Management are quite different.

Support Coordinators have a range of responsibilities depending on the needs of their clients, including helping them understand their plan, attending meetings with them, connecting them to the supports in their plan, preparing for a plan review, providing advice, and addressing concerns related to supports or the Plan itself. Support Coordinators charge per hour of work they provide to the client. Some months they may be providing more support hours than others.

A Plan Manager’s main responsibility is to take care of their participants’ funds. This will include: verifying invoices, claiming funds from the NDIA to pay providers, keeping track of spending, protecting the client from fraudulent invoices and overspending. Unlike Support Coordination, Plan Management is charged at a flat yearly rate as laid out by the NDIS.