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📢 Important NDIS Update: Change to NDIS Funding Periods 📢

The NDIA is starting to make changes to help participants manage their NDIS budgets more easily.

🗓️ What’s changing?
From 19 May 2025, new and updated NDIS plans will include funding periods. This means participants will get their funding in smaller amounts over time, instead of all at once.

💬 Why is this happening?
Some participants said it’s hard to manage their money when they get it all at the start of their plan. It can lead to spending too much too quickly.

🧾 What is a funding period?
A funding period is the time when part of a participant’s money is available to use.

• Most funding periods will be 3 months long.
• The total amount of funding stays the same.
• It just changes when the money is available.
• If money isn’t used in one period, it rolls over to the next one (but not into a new plan).

💡 More money can be given early if needed — for example, to buy equipment or make home changes.

👥 Who will this affect?
Only people getting a new or updated plan after 19 May 2025.
The NDIA will talk with each participant to understand their needs before making changes.

🛠️ The NDIA has been working with:

• People with disability
• Carers
• Disability organisations
• Advisory groups

They want to make sure the changes are fair and helpful.

📞 Need help or have questions?
You can contact the Peer Network Hub at ACD Tas. They can help you understand the changes and what they mean for your family.  ACD Tas’s Peer Network Hub is a free family assistance program that is run statewide.  The Hub is a central place for Tasmanian families to gain and share needed information, resources and skills and link with others to achieve a shared vision.

You can access the Hub by telephone on 1800 244 742, connect with us, via email or in person.