An NDIS Plan Manager is a qualified bookkeeper and should work with you in a friendly and courteous manner.

We at Disability Pathway Solutions are a family-operated business and between us have 8.5 years of NDIS business experience, including working with a Plan Manager.  This enables us to set up service providers for you efficiently, including an NDIS-registered plan manager. 

Plan-managed funding enables NDIS participants to employ their choice of qualified NDIS service providers for support. 

This gives the client Choice and Control over their service providers without having to be self-managed or agency-managed. 

With this choice, NDIS participants employ a plan manager to arrange payments and to collect and keep all records on their behalf. 

This procedure is like having their personal bookkeeper for their NDIS plan. 

The participant can always contact the plan manager to ask about their funding balance. 

Or allow Disability Pathway Solutions to do it for you. The participant/family need to set up an NDIS consent form to enable us to assist. We can help with that procedure too. 

The good news:

The NDIS covers the plan manager’s wage and the fees are not taken from a participant’s funding. The fees are added to the funding so that money is never removed away from other supports. 

The NDIS will not allow service providers to charge their clients more than the recommended NDIS price limit. 

More good news for the service providers is that the recommended rates are generally sufficient to cover all services at the hourly rates that are allowed. 

The best news:

By hiring service providers that are not NDIS registered is that it enables all parties to become more involved in their community. 

 This means that local domestic cleaners, gardeners, and maybe even an IT trainer to show the participant how to use emails and social media can all be utilised within the disability sector. 

These services must be pre-approved in the client’s NDIS plan.

 Most of these business types do not need to be NDIA registered as yet but other types such as speech therapists, psychologists, and occupational therapists do. Therapists are specialised in disability and require registration.

 If the NDIS participant has chosen an unregistered provider, and they are either plan-managed or self-managed the participant or family can still employ them. 

 We at Disability Pathway Solutions offer our services to explain to you how to become Plan-Managed. It is a great solution to remove all the concerns that may arise within your NDIS plans and funding.

If you would like Disability Pathway Solutions to set you up with a competent and fast paying Plan Manager, please contact us below. Thank you. Darren.