We may be able to fund different supports to help you to live independently. While we don’t pay for rent or bills, many other NDIS supports can be funded to help with the best living situation for you.
Speak to your my NDIS contact if you’re not sure which option is right for you. They’ll guide you through the process and suggest which options might be right for you. Sometimes you can have more than one home and living support in your NDIS plan.
Not everyone is eligible for home and living supports in their plan. You can ask for a decision to be reviewed if you disagree with a decision we’ve made.
Tip: Explore other support options.
You may be able to get help from mainstream or community supports and services if you aren’t eligible for NDIS funding for home and living supports. Your NDIS partner can help you connect with other supports.
We contribute to your disability-related support needs
We may fund supports that:
You pay your own rent, bills, and daily costs
You’re responsible for your day-to-day living costs. This includes rent, groceries, utilities, telephone and internet. You’re responsible for general household items such as a bed, fridge or cooking utensils in most cases. There are some times where we may contribute to these costs. For example, modified cooking utensils or an adjustable bed and pressure care mattress. Learn more about assistive technology.
The NDIS supports lists can help you understand the services, items and equipment we may or may not fund.
Assistance with daily life (ADL) helps with everyday tasks in your home so you can live as independently as possible, such as cooking and cleaning or personal care support.
Funding for other supports can be added to your ADL budget, unlike other home and living options. Talk to your my NDIS contact if you think you may need this type of support. Funding in your ADL budget is flexible with other core supports.
Help with daily activities is usually provided within your home. It’s often included in your plan if you only need very targeted NDIS support or if you don’t need support all the time.
You may choose to manage your own supports including directing, planning and rostering your own support workers. This is called self-directed supports and sits within your ADL budget.
Individualised living options (ILO) is a package of supports designed to help you choose where and how you live in the way that best suits you. This can include supports such as host or housemate arrangements.
ILO follows a multi-stage process that includes:
Supported independent living (SIL) is funding for a support worker to help or supervise you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
They may help with daily tasks within your home like personal care and cooking meals, cleaning, shopping and developing a routine. They may also help you develop skills so you can live more independently.
While it doesn’t cover rent, bills or your actual house, SIL does fund the support workers so you can live as independently as possible.
If you choose to have self-directed supports, this isn’t considered SIL. Self-directed supports sit within your ADL budget.
Home modifications are changes made to your home to help you access and use areas of your home.
This involves getting a part of your home changed to meet your needs. Home modifications can help make it safer for you to move around your home and increase your independence.
They can be minor or complex depending on cost and if they change structural parts of your home.
Specialist disability accommodation (SDA) is specially designed homes for people with very high support needs or extreme functional impairment.
They may have unique features that other houses don’t have. For example wheelchair-accessible kitchen sinks, wider corridors, ramps, and button-operated doors.
SDA is the only NDIS funding that provides the housing itself. It doesn’t cover the supports within the home or the cost of rent.
Medium term accommodation (MTA) is funding to live somewhere for up to 3 months. It’s only available in specific circumstances. For example, if you can’t move into your long-term accommodation because you can’t access it.
It’s sometimes used when we have approved complex home modifications and you can’t stay at home while the work is being done. You might be eligible for MTA if you can’t move into your SDA property because it isn’t ready yet.
You’ll only get MTA as a one-off support. This is because you’ll then move into your long-term home.
Talk to your my NDIS contact. We’ll talk to you about what options you’ve already explored and what’ll best suit your needs when you ask for home and living supports.
Update: All providers delivering SIL and NDIS digital platform services must be registered from 1 July 2026. Your provider has until 1 October to apply to register.
Your plan and NDIS funding won’t change. We’ll help you understand your options if your provider doesn’t register.
You don’t need to make any changes if you organise or employ your own support workers.
Supported independent living (SIL) is funding for a support worker to help or supervise you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You may share a support worker or have an individual support worker, depending on how much help you need. The support worker will help or supervise day-to-day tasks within your home.
SIL may be suitable if you need a support worker to:
Support workers can help with daily tasks like:
Focused on building your skills and independence
SIL is designed to help you live as independently as possible while building your skills.
Tip: What’s the difference between SIL and SDA?
Specialist disability accommodation (SDA) is the housing itself. They are homes built for people with very high support needs. It doesn’t cover the supports from support workers within the home. SIL is funding for support workers to help you. Some people have both SDA and SIL in their plans. Learn more in the guide to your NDIS home and living options.
Your SIL funding depends on your disability support needs. SIL may be funded as one-to-one support in limited situations. There may be other home and living supports that suit your needs better if you:
Tip: Is SIL right for you?
Learn more about how to ask for home and living supports.
It can’t be used for day-to-day expenses
SIL can’t be used for things like rent or other day-to-day expenses like groceries. It’s important your NDIS funds are spent in line with the NDIS supports list.
Your support coordinator can help you find providers
You may have funding for a support coordinator if you have SIL funding in your NDIS plan.
A support coordinator can help you find providers so you can live safely in your home.
You can also look for providers using our provider finder.
Download the SIL guideline:
There are many benefits of having a job.
This includes:
We can fund the following NDIS supports to help you get ready for work.
Find out what you are good at and what work suits you.
Find out what you are good at and what work suits you.
Learning how to work
Help for you to:
Finding or changing jobs
Help for:
Getting support at work
Help for:
Or to provide you with:
Support can be provided in any workplace and can be one-to-one or in a group setting depending on where you work and the type of support you need.
Employment-related assessment and counselling and advice
Employment-related assessment, counselling and advice are supports delivered by allied health professionals who can:
Your NDIA planner will need the following information when including funding in your plan:
Become independent
Other NDIS supports, like community participation supports, can help build your skills and take steps to employment.
A community participation provider can help you to:
It’s important to think about what employment goals you want to work towards. Your goals will depend on your situation and what life stage you’re at. Your my NDIS contact or support coordinator can help you think about your goals.
You can share your goals at your plan meeting. Your NDIA planner will include your goals in your NDIS plan. They’ll also explain how your NDIS funding can help you work towards your goals.
Learn more about how to set employment goals.
Your next step after you have employment support funding in your plan is to connect to a provider. They can help you build skills for work, find and keep a job. Use our provider finder to find employment support providers near you.
Your my NDIS contact or support coordinator can also help you to connect with providers in your area.
Review your provider reports
We work closely with employment providers to get information about what’s working to help participants with employment.
This information is shared in the provider quarterly report. This report can help you to choose an employment provider by understanding how they’ve helped others.
You can also use our employment support provider comparison worksheet when choosing a provider. The worksheet is a useful tool with questions you can ask a provider to help understand how they can help you.
Download the employment support provider comparison worksheet:
Check how you are progressing towards your goals in the plan reassessment at the end of your plan.
Your my NDIS contact will talk to you about your progress and if you need additional funding to work towards your goals.
Your employment support provider will give you information to help you in your plan reassessment. Their report should include the:
Talk to your provider first
It’s important you talk to your provider first if you have a concern about your current NDIS supports or services.
Talk to your my NDIS contact or support coordinator
Ask your my NDIS contact or support coordinator for help if you can’t resolve this directly or don’t feel safe to have the conversation.
You can also contact the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission .
Your my NDIS contact can also help you connect with other employment supports in your community when you’re ready. This might include:
Learn more about Inclusive Employment Australia, the EAF or other supports available on the Job Access website .
Download the let’s talk about work booklet:
Download let’s talk about work in Easy Read:
Download the work and study guideline:
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