Understanding the NDIS webinar: Funding Periods

In October 2024, changes to the NDIS Act introduced funding periods, an important first step toward more flexible, easier to manage plans, as recommended by the NDIS Review.

Funding periods make your budget available in regular intervals, helping you plan ahead and ensure your funding lasts for the full length of your plan.

These changes also include safeguards that support longer NDIS plans, giving participants more stability and confidence in managing their supports.

Participants will learn about:

• What funding periods are and why they have been introduced

• How funding periods work in practice and what they mean for accessing funding

• How funding periods can help with budgeting and planning across a whole plan

• What’s changing in NDIS plans and how longer plans are supported

• Practical tips for managing supports within funding periods with confidence

Who is this webinar for?

This session is designed for NDIS participants, carers, families, and kin, as well as supporting services such as advocacy organisations, peer support networks, and carers’ groups.

We also encourage mainstream services that support people with disability including health, education, housing, and community services to attend.

It is not intended for providers.

Additional information:

• Sessions are delivered via video-conference using Microsoft Teams.

• The log in details will be sent to you ONE DAY PRIOR to the webinar, to the email address you provide at registration. Please ensure you enter your email address correctly when registering.

• Registrations not requiring accessibility supports close one business day prior to the session date or once tickets have sold out.

• Registrations requiring accessibility supports close five business days prior to the session date or once tickets have sold out to allow time for bookings.

  • If these tickets are no longer available, please contact us at events@ndis.gov.au. While we will do our best to assist, we may not be able to guarantee availability of support due to time constraints.

• If you have accessibility requirements, please make sure you select the Online - Accessibility supports required ticket when registering. If you have requested accessibility services, these services are provided by an external provider.

For any enquiries regarding this session, please contact events@ndis.gov.au and include the session name in the subject line.