What’s the difference between the NDIA vs NDIS

If you’re new to the NDIS, you’ve probably seen references to the NDIA, and maybe wondered what that meant.

The NDIA is an acronym for the National Disability Insurance Agency. It’s the government body responsible for managing the NDIS, or National Disability Insurance Scheme.

It’s an independent statutory agency, designed specifically to implement the NDIS to help Australians living with disability to live their best life.

The NDIA has four main roles and responsibilities:

• It provides information and referrals for people looking at the NDIS, connecting people to services and activities. It is responsible for developing individualised plans, which it then offers funded support for throughout the participant’s life.
• The NDIA helps empower and inform people with disability to be confident consumers.
• It provides service providers with clarity and transparency so they can grow their business and respond to people’s needs.
• The NDIA helps raise community awareness, while encouraging greater inclusion and access for people with disability to mainstream services, community activities and other government initiatives.

This means that the NDIA is essentially the organisation, or “the who”, responsible for delivering the NDIS, or “the what”.

Once an NDIS plan has been approved, the NDIA can also act as a plan’s manager if you choose to have an Agency-managed NDIS plan. By picking an Agency-managed plan, the NDIA will look after bookkeeping and record-keeping for you, taking away some administrative responsibility.

The NDIS, meanwhile, is the scheme designed to support Australians living with permanent disability. Its main aim is to provide funding that allows participants to access the necessary supports and services that help them achieve their goals.

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