Providers of NDIS Services and Information across Australia
EG Plan Manager provides NDIS information and services to assist clients in Australia. Speak with our knowledgeable staff right now for a dedicated services that is built around your needs.
We are here to help you to review the often, time consuming NDIS information, aiming to make the process easier. Our plan management services help people by facilitating all the paper work, give expert guidance that you need to get the most effective funding and how to effectively deal with an NDIS plan.
The NDIS Process
As the largest plan manager in Australia, we’re perfectly positioned to explain the NDIS application process, so you know what to expect every step of the way.
First, accessing support under the NDIS begins with connecting with an NDIS partner. Next, you’ll determine if you’re eligible to join. If you meet the requirements, you’ll be supported to submit an NDIS application. Then, you’ll wait for the National Disability Insurance Agency’s (NDIA) decision.
Step 1
Connect with an NDIS partner
The first step to accessing supports under the NDIS is connecting with an NDIS partner.
An NDIS partner is a team member of a community-based organisation funded by the NDIA to help deliver the NDIS in some parts of Australia.
An NDIS partner can be an early childhood partner, or a local area coordination partner.
Your NDIS partner will become your ‘my NDIS contact’, and they can help connect you to community and mainstream services through a Community Connections plan, or assist you with learning more about applying to join the NDIS.
If your area isn’t serviced by an NDIS partner, you can ask to be supported by an Agency team member.
Step 2
Apply to join the NDIS
If you think you’re eligible for the NDIS, your my NDIS contact can help you to apply to join. Your my NDIS contact will talk to you about:
• Your situation
• The NDIS eligibility criteria
• The application process
• The information and evidence you need to provide
• What to expect from the process
They’ll work with you to gather information and evidence, and then they’ll complete and submit the application on your behalf.
Step 3
Wait to receive the NDIA’s decision
Step 4
Prepare for your plan meeting
FAQs
To apply for the NDIS, you need to be:
• Younger than 65 when you apply
• An Australia citizen or permanent resident
• Living in Australia
• Able to meet the disability or early intervention requirements
• The disability requirements are that you have one or more impairments that are likely to be permanent, substantially impacting your ability to do life activities. Your impairment must also affect your social life, or your ability to work or study, and you must be likely to need support under the NDIS for your whole life. The early intervention requirements are that you have one or more impairments that are likely to be permanent and supports would help you by reducing your need for supports in the future. For children younger than six with developmental delay to meet the early intervention requirements there are different requirements.
Information and evidence you’ll need to provide includes documents proving:
- You’re an Australian citizen or permanent resident
- Your personal details, like name, date of birth, and address
- Your disability is permanent and significant
- An explanation of your functional capacity, and informal, mainstream and community supports.
You can work with your treating health professionals to provide evidence of disability. For each primary disability, the NDIA has a list of health professionals most appropriate to provide standardised assessments considered to be best practice in evidence. You can access the list here.
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