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NDIS glossary

What is NDIA?

In plain English

National Disability Insurance Agency. The Commonwealth agency that runs the NDIS, builds plans, approves funding and pays registered providers. Different from the NDIS itself, which is the scheme.

The National Disability Insurance Agency is the Commonwealth body that runs the NDIS day to day. It decides who is eligible, builds plans with participants, approves funding and pays registered providers. It is easy to confuse the NDIA with the NDIS itself, but the NDIS is the scheme and the NDIA is the agency that delivers it. When people talk about an NDIA decision, they mean a decision made by this agency.

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