Core Budget

Your Core budget is the most flexible, and includes four categories of support:

1. Consumables (e.g. purchasing everyday use items such as continence aids)

2. Daily Activities (e.g. assistance with self-care activities during the day or evening)

3. Assistance with Social and Community Participation (e.g. supports to enable you to engage in social or recreational activities)

4. Transport

Core Supports help you with everyday activities, your current disability-related needs and to work towards your goals. 

In the myplace portal, descriptions are:

Assistance with Daily Life, Daily Activities - For example, assistance with everyday needs, household cleaning and/or yard maintenance.

Consumables - Everyday items you may need. For example, continence products or low-cost assistive technology and equipment to improve your independence and/or mobility.

Assistance with Social & Community Participation Social, community and civic participation: For example, a support worker to assist you to participate in social and community activities.

Transport: This is support that helps you travel to work or other places that will help you pursue the goals in your plan.
How you can spend your transport funding and how it is paid to you (whether upfront or in regular payments) will be different for each person. 

Capacity Building Budget

The Capacity Building funding is allocated across eight support sub-categories, each matched with the goals in your plan. You can choose how to spend these funds to purchase any approved individual support within its category but won’t be able to move funding from one category to another.

The Capacity Building support categories include:

1. Choice and Control e.g. training in planning and plan management

2. Daily Activity e.g. therapy aimed at building your capacity to participate

3. Employment e.g. employment related assessment and counselling

4. Health and Wellbeing e.g. exercise advice required because of impact of disability

5. Home Living e.g. support to obtain/retain appropriate accommodation

6. Lifelong Learning e.g. assistance moving from school to further education

7. Relationships e.g. positive behavioural support strategies to reduce behaviours of concern

8. Social and Community Participation e.g. Individual life skills development and training including public transport training and support, developing skills for community, social and recreational participation.

Support Coordination (if required) is included in the Capacity Building budget. This is a fixed amount for strengthening abilities to coordinate and implement supports in NDIS plan and to participate more fully in the community.

Capital Support Budget

The Capital Support budget relates to supports such as assistive technology or modifications to your home and as such depends on quotes from suppliers. Funds within this budget can only be used for their specific purpose (e.g. a rail in the bathroom or a wheelchair) and cannot be used to fund other items.

The Capital Support budget has two support categories:

• Assistive Technology – includes equipment items for mobility, personal care, communication and recreational inclusion (e.g. wheelchairs or vehicle modifications)

• Home Modifications (e.g. rail in the bathroom).