Guides
Funding and support categories
What the different parts of a plan pay for, in plain English.
- Capacity Building supports explained, with examples The nine Capacity Building categories, what they fund, why the money cannot be moved between them, and why this budget is the most underspent in the scheme.
- Core Supports vs Capacity Building: what each budget pays for The two NDIS budgets that cause the most confusion. What each funds, which categories sit inside them, which is flexible, and how to tell them apart.
- Increased Social and Community Participation: what it actually funds The Capacity Building budget for learning to join in. What it funds, how it differs from the Core support, and how to get it into your plan.
- Improved daily living skills: real examples of what you can fund A practical list of what Improved Daily Living funding actually pays for, grouped by cooking, household, money, travel, communication and personal skills.
- NDIS community participation: what it covers and how to use it What NDIS community participation funding covers, the difference between the Core and Capacity Building versions, and how to ask for more of it.
- NDIS funded activities: what your plan pays for and how to find them What activities an NDIS plan actually pays for, which budget they come from, what group sessions cost, and how to find something worth joining near you.
- Improved Daily Living: what it funds and who it is for Improved Daily Living is the Capacity Building budget that pays to build skills, not to have things done for you. What it covers, with real examples.