Advice Support Tool
Theme: Home Modifications
Sub-Theme(s): New Home Builds, and homes purchased after meeting access to scheme
References:
General advice resources:
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
- NDIS (Supports for Participants) Rules 2013
- TAB intranet page: mandatory home modification referrals, TAB digest
Resources specific to new home builds and new home purchases:
- NDIS Home Modification Guideline
- Page 9-10 of PDF
- NDIS website: Providing Home Modifications — in particular the ‘Home Modification Guide for Builders and Designers’ document.
- Pages 25-26 of ‘Home Modification Guide for Builders and Designers’
- NDIS website: Would we fund it? Modifications to a new house build
- NCC Liveable Housing Handbook - Livable Housing Handbook released - a CUDA post
- Relevant for new build properties
s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies
Note: All criteria need to be met for the supports to be funded through the NDIS.
| Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports | Is criteria met? | Considerations (including evidence used) |
|---|---|---|
| 34.1(a) Enabling the participant’s goals and objectives | ☐ Yes → Likely to be met. Consider individual circumstances. ☐ No → |
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| 34.1(b) Assist the participant’s social and economic participation | ☐ Yes → Likely to be met. Consider individual circumstances. ☐ No → |
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| 34.1(c) Value for money | ☐ Yes → All of the usual home modification value for money considerations apply. Specific to this topic: |
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| Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports | Is criteria met? | Considerations (including evidence used) |
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| s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies | Refer to the NDIS Guidance for Builders and Designers document for an outline on the general R & N scope and considerations. | What is the extra cost of the disability specific components? You will need costings. 847E(d) - certain operations of agencies |
| Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports | Is criteria met? | Considerations (including evidence used) |
|---|---|---|
| s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies: | Apply all the usual value for money considerations to the home modifications requested. | |
| s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies | ||
| 34.1(d) Support is effective or beneficial for the participant | ☐ Yes → | Apply all the usual considerations to the home modifications requested / home design proposed as to whether it is likely to be effective and beneficial with regard to good practice (E.g. AS1428.1, Livable housing design standards, individual participant circumstances, etc). |
| ☐ No → |
Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports
| Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports | Is criteria met? | Considerations (including evidence used) |
|---|---|---|
| 34.1(e) Support coordinates with but does not replace informal support | ☐ Yes → | Likely to be met. |
| ☐ No → | ||
| 34.1(f) Support is most appropriately funded by the NDIS | ☐ Yes → | Likely to be met. | ☐ No → |
| Support will not cause harm Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 5.1 and 5.3 | ☐ Yes → | Likely to be met. | ☐ No → |
| Support is directly related to the participant’s disability (supports will not be funded under the NDIS if they do not relate to the participant’s disability or are day-to-day expenses or income replacement) Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 5.1 and 5.2 | ☐ Yes → | s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies Refer to examples in the WWEI | ☐ No → |
| Support does not duplicate other supports Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 5.1 | ☐ Yes → | Likely to be met. | ☐ No → |
| Are all of the above criteria met for all supports? | ☐ Yes → | s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies | ☐ No → |