NDIS

Changes

The NDIA is making some changes to the plan review process in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

If a participant has a scheduled plan review, the NDIA will contact them by phone or email to undertake their review and discuss having a plan of up to 24 months.

To ensure participant plans don’t end, on the day a plan is due to expire, it will be automatically be extended by 365 days.

Participants who have plans that expire soon, do not need to do anything to have their plans automatically extended by 365 days.

In addition, the NDIA will be making changes to NDIS systems over the weekend to make sure participants have the funding they need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information: https://bit.ly/2xssYmr

Coles are updating shopping hours to allow emergency services and healthcare workers to shop early on Tuesday and Thursday. Changing the days for people with a disability and the elderly to shop to Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Woolworths stores will be accessible Monday to Friday. For both Coles and Woolworths the hours have not changed: 7am to 8am.

Entry to stores will be granted with a relevant government-issued Companion or Carer Card, disability permit, Pensioner Concession Card and Commonwealth Seniors Health Card.