National Disability Insurance Scheme
More than 5 million Australians are living with a disability and until 2013 there was no nationwide system to support their needs.
With final rollout of the NDIS completed Australia wide mid-2020, the hundreds of thousands of Australians participating in the NDIS will have greater choice and access to assistance with a coordinated disability funding system.
The NDIS delivers personalised support to Australians with a permanent and significant disability, along with their families and carers. It’s designed to provide security and opportunity, ensuring people with disability—and those who support them—can live with confidence and independence.
About the NDIS
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is transforming the way Australians with disability, their families, and carers access the support they deserve.
Designed for Australians under 65 with a permanent and significant disability, the NDIS provides tailored, reasonable, and necessary supports to help participants live life to the fullest. Whether it’s building independence, fostering community connections, pursuing education, securing employment, or enhancing health and wellbeing—the NDIS is here to turn goals into reality.
As a forward-thinking insurance scheme, the NDIS takes a lifelong approach, investing early to create lasting positive outcomes. Beyond funding, the NDIS connects participants, families, and carers with vital information and community support services, ensuring no one navigates their journey alone.
Every Australian with disability has the right to choice, control, and the freedom to shape their own future.
The NDIS understands that no two journeys are the same. That’s why it delivers tailored support and the flexibility to manage services in a way that aligns with each person’s unique goals—helping them live life on their own terms.
Gone are the days of a fragmented, unequal system. The NDIS has ushered in a world-class framework—fair, sustainable, and designed for lasting impact. For participants, families, and carers, this means reliable support, today and into the future.
Now, Australians can move forward with confidence, knowing that if a loved one is born with or acquires a lifelong disability, the NDIS ensures timely, meaningful support—exactly when it’s needed most.
There are only 717,001* Australians signed up to the NDIS, despite 5.5 million living with a disability.
*as of 31st March 2025
NDIS provides choice and greater control over the services that Participants will receive. It won’t mean they have to change their current arrangements, nor will it change the supports that Participants receive for rent, electricity etc.
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The NDIS support packages are tailored to individual needs. Participants can choose their own Providers, asking an intermediary (like a Support Coordinator) to put together the best package for them, and direct their funding to areas of need, or choose a combination that best suits them.
Why the NDIS?
Pre NDIS, disability services in Australia were at best haphazard. Funding received depended upon where you lived, as well as how, when and where you acquired your disability. Some people received adequate funding, others none.
In 2013, the NDIS was introduced to provide a fairer system of funding and support giving more control to those with disabilities.
Funding
The NDIS provides funding for employment, activities, early intervention and for accommodation.
Participants can choose when and where they receive these supports and which disability service providers they work with.
The NDIS completed full rollout across Australia in 2020.
NDIS Eligibility
NDIS eligibility is determined by the following factors:
- Under age 65
- Australian citizen, permanent resident or a New Zealand citizen with a Protected special category visa
- A permanent disability that significantly affects communication, movement and the ability to care for oneself.
- Early Intervention where such intervention would substantially improve functioning, or delay or decrease a decline in functioning, for the parent and child.
More Information:
For more details on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, call 1800 800 110 or visit www.ndis.gov.au.
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