What to Expect from Your NDIS Planning Meeting?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme abbreviated as NDIS is committed to helping individuals living with disabilities. The purpose of holding the NDIS planning meeting is ensuring that such individuals get an NDIS plan, which is a document that describes the financial support you will get from the NDIS.
NDIS officials will work with you and your family to create an NDIS plan. The official will develop the plan after asking you questions about your life at the NDIS planning meeting. Some of the things that need to be discussed at the NDIS planning meeting include:
- Your goals and needs
- How you manage day-to-day activities and the support you may require for specific duties. The support that you receive from mainstream providers, loved ones, and service providers.
- If the support is effective to you and your family.
What information should I take to the NDIS planning meeting?
It is essential to gather your information for the NDIS planning meeting. This information includes:
- Therapist or doctors report
- Existing health care plans
- Current funding details
- Activities that you are interested in
By providing this information, the planner can obtain evidence for future support. It is also advisable to complete and bring along an occasional, weekly, and daily activity planner. Such a planner will be useful for you and the planner.
Can I bring someone else along in the NDIS planning meeting?
It is up to you to bring friends, service providers, or family to your NDIS planning meeting.
What questions can I expect to answer on managing my funds plan?
In the planning meeting, the NDIS official will ask you how you wish your NDIS plan to be managed, meaning how you want your support and service providers to be compensated.
The NDIS official will assist you in determining how to handle your plan, which can be:
- The NDIS will pay the providers directly and manage the funds in your NDIS plan on behalf of you. This is known as an Agency managed plan.
- You can decide to manage the funds yourself, keep records, and pay the service providers. This service is called Self managed plan.
- Involve a financial intermediary, also known as plan management.
- A combination of the options above.
NDIS will support any decision you make and help you set up the process and make arrangements. To benefit the most from your NDIS planning meeting, you should be adequately prepared.