To be eligible for the NDIS, you must:

• Be under the age of 65 when you apply.
• Be an Australian citizen or live in Australia as a permanent resident, and have a postal address.
• Live with a ‘severe and enduring’ diagnosed mental health condition.
• Struggle to carry out essential daily living tasks.

Yes.

Yes.

The NDIS will ensure that you are given every opportunity to make your own decisions.

It recognises that the role of families and carers are essential in your life and will include them in discussions about supports.

Things that may be funded for carers include:

• Training for carers/parental strategies
• Behaviour support/management plans
• Group therapy and family therapy
• Transition planning
• Coordination of supports that are in the plan
• Assistance with decision making, daily planning and budgeting

Yes.

The NDIS works in conjunction with other systems, but does not replace other Government funded services. 

You may already use a funded plan with supports from the NDIS, however, this would involve with other services such as clinical mental health services or community mental health services.

Your application will be unaffected, as long as you begin your application before your 65^th birthday.

Yes.

To manage your own NDIS package, you must be able to manage your budgets and service agreements with providers.

Aged Care confirm that ‘individual funding’ is in fact called the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP).

The aim of the CHSP is to help older people live as independently as possible, with a focus on working with you, rather than for you.

It is about building on your strengths, capacity and goals to help you remain living independently and safely at home.

If you have been injured or hospitalised, you may be eligible for additional services through the program to help you get back on your feet.

For more information, speak to your service providers.

For NDIS participants, the scheme will financially support you to live an ordinary life.

This includes:

• Assistance with planning, decision making and household tasks.
• Assistance to build the skills to live independently and achieve their goals, such as building social relationships, as well as financial management and tenancy management skills.

You can choose to access funded supports in your home, at a centre, or through community activities.

If there are any changes to your circumstances – even if you are waiting for the outcome of your access request – you must, by law, inform the NDIA. This must be done as soon as possible after you become aware of the change or that one is likely to occur.

A change of circumstances is an event or change in your life that may affect:

• your access request;
• your status as a participant in the NDIS; or,
• your plan.

While the NDIS website is the best starting place for all information and updates about how to access support for psychosocial disability, there are other sources of information and assistance that can provide answers to the particular issues you or your family member may have.

If you would prefer to speak to a Skylight member in person, you can organise a meeting to discuss the NDIS and see how Skylight can support you. Phone us on 8378 4100 or enquire here.

Phone

1800 800 110.

• If you require a free-of-charge translator, interpreter or other assistance, phone 1800 800 110
• If you are a Text telephone (TTY) user, phone 1800 555 677 then ask for 1800 800 110
• If you are a Speak and Listen (speech-to-speech relay) user, phone 1800 555 727 then ask for 1800 800 110
• If you are an internet relay user, visit the National Relay Service website and ask for 1800 800 110 www.relayservice.gov.au  

The contact centre is open 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday

Mail

National Disability Insurance Agency
GPO Box 700
Canberra ACT 2601

www.ndis.gov.au/people-disability/access-requirements.html

Speak with Skylight about the NDIS.