Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00129:section:33:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00129
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 33 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 122295–125170

33  Matters that must be included in a participant's plan

Participant's statement of goals and aspirations
 (1) A participant's plan must include a statement (the participant's statement of goals and aspirations) prepared by the participant that specifies:
 (a) the goals, objectives and aspirations of the participant; and
 (b) the environmental and personal context of the participant's living, including the participant's:
 (i) living arrangements; and
 (ii) informal community supports and other community supports; and
 (iii) social and economic participation.

Statement of participant supports
 (2) A participant's plan must include a statement (the statement of participant supports), prepared with the participant and approved by the CEO, that specifies:
 (a) the general supports (if any) that will be provided to, or in relation to, the participant; and
 (b) the reasonable and necessary supports (if any) that will be funded under the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and
 (c) the date by which, or the circumstances in which, the Agency must reassess the plan under Division 4; and
 (d) the management of the funding for supports under the plan (see also Division 3); and
 (e) the management of other aspects of the plan.

Total funding amounts, funding component amounts and funding periods
 (2A) In addition to the matters mentioned in paragraphs (2)(a) to (e), the statement of participant supports must:
 (a) specify that funding will be provided under the plan to or in relation to the participant, for all reasonable and necessary supports funded under the plan taken as a whole, up to a specified amount (the total funding amount) worked out under subsection (2B); and
 (b) in accordance with any requirements determined under subsection (2E) for the purposes of this paragraph, categorise the reasonable and necessary supports specified under paragraph (2)(b) into one or more groups of supports identified in the statement; and
 (c) specify that funding will be provided under the plan to or in relation to the participant, for supports in each group identified under paragraph (b) of this subsection, up to an amount (a funding component amount) specified in the statement for the group that is worked out in accordance with any requirements determined under subsection (2E) for the purposes of this paragraph; and
 (d) specify that funding will be provided under the plan to or in relation to the participant for reasonable and necessary supports during specified periods (each of which is a funding period).
Note: For paragraph (b), if the statement specifies only a single reasonable and necessary support or class of such supports, the support or class may be categorised and identified as a single group.
 (2B) For the purposes of paragraph (2A)(a), the total funding amount specified in a statement of participant supports must be an amount