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Use the specialist disability accommodation (SDA) calculator

SGP KP Publishing

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Table of Contents

  1. Recent updates …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
  2. Before you start …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
  3. Understand changes to SDA prices ……………………………………………………………………….. 6
  4. Use the SDA price calculator for the participant’s recommended SDA amount ……….. 7
  5. Use the SDA price calculator for the enrolled dwelling SDA amount ………………………. 8
  6. Confirm the SDA amount to include in the participant’s plan ………………………………….. 9
  7. Next steps …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10

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This article provides guidance for a review officer, participant support officer, payments officer, planner delegate, planner (non-partnered area), and national reassessment delegate to:

  • understand changes to SDA prices
  • use the SDA price calculator for the participant’s recommended SDA amount
  • use the SDA price calculator for the enrolled dwelling SDA amount
  • confirm the SDA amount to include in the participant’s plan.

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1 Recent updates

29 July 2024
Updated guidance to remove some sections and direct link to NDIS SDA Price Calculator excel file. Replaced with SDA pricing and payments NDIS website containing up-to-date calculator.

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2 Before you start

You have read and understood:

You have:

  • confirmed the participant has a completed housing application recommending SDA supports. You can find this in the Decision tab of the most recent Housing Application case. Note: If there is no recommendation of SDA supports but SDA supports are in the current SAP CRM plan, go to article Include specialist disability accommodation (SDA) funding for participants with no assessed SDA amount
  • confirmed the participant’s address is an enrolled SDA dwelling. To learn more, go to article Check the specialist disability accommodation (SDA) enrolled dwelling details
  • checked the enrolled dwelling details include up-to-date pricing. Use the NDIS SDA Price Calculator from SDA pricing and payments (external) to confirm current prices. Compare this with the maximum price per resident value. To help, use the information in the participant’s SDA Enrolment
  • discussed with the participant any risks involved, if they have decided to move into a different SDA building category than they were recommended for. For example, if the participant was recommended for being eligible for a high physical supports SDA and has chosen to move into improved liveability. You have discussed and made the participant aware of the differences between these dwellings. To learn more, go to the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) Design Standard (PDF 8.39MB)
  • checked all SDA amounts using the current NDIS SDA Price Calculator from SDA pricing and payments (external). This is before including the SDA funding in the participant’s plan. This is to make sure you use the correct pricing for the current financial year.

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3 Understand changes to SDA prices

The SDA calculator was developed to help get the correct SDA amount when the price changes each year. The current calculator can be found on SDA pricing and payments (external).

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has recently ruled that exemption from goods and services tax (GST) only applies to certain types of NDIS providers (external).

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4 Use the SDA price calculator for the participant’s recommended SDA amount

Use the NDIS SDA Price Calculator from SDA pricing and payments (external) to record the following details and work out the participant’s assessed SDA amount:

  1. At Dwelling enrolled as, select Post-2023 New Build from the drop-down. You’ll need to select this to check if the participant needs the SDA maximum amount.
  2. At Building type, select the building type from the drop-down. Use the information in the participant’s SDA recommendation to select the building type.
  3. At Design Category, select from the drop-down. Use the information in the participant’s SDA recommendation to select the building category.
  4. At With or without On-site Overnight Assistance (OOA), select With OOA from the drop-down.
  5. At With or without Fire Sprinklers, select With Fire Sprinklers from the drop-down.
  6. At Were input Tax Credits claimed for the GST paid on purchase cost of the dwelling?, select Input Tax Credits were not claimed. You will always select this for participant recommended SDA amount.
  7. At Location (SA4), if the participant has:
  8. At Location Adjusted Annual SDA Amount, review the Calculated value.
  9. Record this as the Participant assessed SDA amount.

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5 Use the SDA price calculator for the enrolled dwelling SDA amount

To work out the participant’s enrolled dwelling SDA amount, you will:

  • search the participant’s confirmed SDA address on SDA Enrolment and SDA enrolled dwelling details, using article Check the specialist disability accommodation (SDA) enrolled dwelling details. The SDA enrolled dwelling price recorded in SDA Enrolment should match the current financial year pricing
  • use the NDIS SDA Price Calculator from SDA pricing and payments (external) to record the following details and work out the enrolled dwelling SDA amount.
  1. At Dwelling enrolled as, select the relevant SDA type from the drop-down. You can find this information in the SDA Enrolment details.
    For example, Existing stock, Legacy stock, Pre-2023 New build (first enrolled as a new build before 1 July 2023) or Post-2023 New Build (first enrolled as a new build on or after 1 July 2023).
  2. At Building type, select from the drop-down, to match what is recorded in the SDA Enrolment details.
  3. At Design Category, select from the drop-down, to match what is recorded in the SDA Enrolment details.
  4. At With or without On-site Overnight Assistance (OOA), select With or without OOA from the drop-down, to match what is recorded in the SDA Enrolment details.
  5. At With or without Fire Sprinklers, select With or without fire sprinklers from the drop-down, to match what is recorded in the SDA Enrolment details.
  6. At Were input tax credits claimed for the GST paid on purchase cost of the dwelling?, select from the drop-down options to match what is recorded in the SDA Enrolment details.
  7. At Location (SA4), select the location to match what the SDA enrolled dwelling is recorded as in PACE.
  8. At Location Adjusted Annual SDA Amount, review the Calculated value.
  9. Confirm this is the same as what is recorded as the maximum price per resident yearly. If the maximum price per resident yearly amount shows a different value, contact redacted: s22(1)(a)(ii) - irrelevant to update this record.

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6 Confirm the SDA amount to include in the participant’s plan

  1. Check the participant recommendation for SDA amount and SDA enrolled dwelling amount.
  2. If the amounts are different, add the lesser of the two amounts to the SDA support category in the plan.
    • Example 1: If the participant SDA recommendation amount is lower than the enrolled dwelling amount, use the lesser participant assessed amount.
    • Example 2: If the enrolled dwelling amount is lower than the participant SDA recommended amount, use the lesser enrolled dwelling amount.

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7 Next steps

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