Hi @Meex05, my husband is on the NDIS and there are three ways in which you can access it once the plan is approved.
1/ NDIA managed - all supports (home help, house and yard maintenance, person care support, assistive technology etc) must be provided by someone who is registered as an NDIS provider - this usually means they charge more and you get less out of your funding budget)
2/ Plan managed - a third party company (we use AusCare) manages your plan, deals with the invoicing and what comes out of what category of funding. With plan managed, you can use any company/organisation/individual as long as they have an ABN to provide an item or service. This means you get more bang for your buck, you can choose who provides for you and you have more freedom of what happens with your plan.
3/ Self managed - this means you do all the invoicing yourself and have to do all the record keeping. There are so many funding categories within categories, you really have to be on top of everything. For me, it's too much, which is why we chose plan managed.
Like all things government controlled, there are a lot of hoops to jump through initially but once you do, the NDIS is invaluable.
