Assistance with Daily Life — NDIS Category 01

Assistance with Daily Life is an NDIS support category (funded from your Core budget). It covers supports like personal care & hygiene, help getting dressed, meal preparation and household cleaning. Funding is based on your goals and assessed reasonable and necessary needs.

Assistance with Daily Life is the most widely used of the NDIS support categories. It funds the hands-on, everyday help that makes independent living genuinely possible — from the morning routine that starts your day, to the meals that fuel it, to the overnight support that keeps you safe through…

What Assistance with Daily Life funds

Assistance with Daily Life is funded from your Core budget — the most flexible part of your plan — in most cases you can move funding between Core categories without a reassessment. It can pay for supports such as:

How to get Assistance with Daily Life in your NDIS plan

Which supports you receive is decided at your planning meeting or reassessment, based on your goals and assessed needs. To get assistance with daily life funded you generally need evidence showing how your disability affects daily life — often a report from an allied health professional. Because a support that isn’t in your plan usually can’t be added without a reassessment, raise everything you need before the plan is approved.

Find Assistance with Daily Life providers on Novida

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Assistance with Daily Life FAQs

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General information, not NDIS or financial advice. Category names and rules differ between legacy and PACE plans and can change — always check your own plan or confirm with the NDIA, your plan manager, or a support coordinator.