What daily living skills training covers
This is support to build skills, with a clear goal of you doing more for yourself. In the NDIS Pricing Arrangements it falls under the registration group development of daily living and life skills, which includes individual skills training, training in a group, and training for parents and carers. Common examples:
- Planning meals, shopping on a budget and cooking simple dishes
- Cleaning, laundry and keeping a home in order
- Managing money, paying bills and using a bank card
- Travel training, so you can catch a bus or train on your own
- Building a daily routine, keeping appointments and managing medication reminders
- Social and communication skills for everyday situations
How it differs from personal care and household help
Personal care and household tasks are about a worker helping you, or doing a task with or for you, because your disability makes it hard to do it yourself. Daily living skills training is about teaching. A support worker who cooks dinner for you is providing help in the home. A support worker who cooks alongside you each week, step by step, until you can do it alone is providing skills training.
Many people have both. Training can reduce the amount of hands on help you need over time, which is something planners look for when deciding what is reasonable and necessary.
Which budget pays for it
Skills training is a Capacity Building support, so it is funded for a specific purpose and is less flexible than your Core budget. Most training for everyday living sits in the improved daily living skills budget (previously called CB Daily Activity), which also pays for therapy and assessments. Training focused on community and social skills can sit in the increased social and community participation budget.
Training is usually delivered by a support worker, a therapy assistant or an allied health professional such as an occupational therapist. Each is paid at its own price limit in the NDIS Pricing Arrangements, so check the item your provider uses.
The 10% reset from 1 October 2026
From 1 October 2026, funding for improved daily living skills supports is reduced by 10% when your plan is created, reassessed or renewed. Plan renewals are included from 1 February 2027, and everyone affected will have had their plan renewed by 30 September 2027. The reset does not apply to new framework plans, which start rolling out from 1 April 2027.
The cut is taken from the budget, not from what you spend. Your new plan will show both the total and the amount available after the change. Because therapy and skills training share this budget, it is worth planning with your providers which supports matter most.
How to get it in your plan
- Set goals about independence, for example cooking your own meals or travelling to work alone
- Ask an occupational therapist to assess your daily living skills and recommend training
- Show what training is already working, and what has changed since your last plan
- Ask for a review of progress at regular intervals, so the support can change as your skills grow
For providers
Good skills training has a written plan, clear steps and regular progress notes that show what the participant can now do. That evidence helps at reassessment. With improved daily living skills budgets now reset by 10%, talk with participants early about priorities and quote against the funding available, not the total.