2025-26 NDIS Pricing Arrangement and Price Limits (PAPL): What it Means for Your Support and Funding
Published at 31-07-2025 11:24:15
Key Changes in the 2025-26 NDIS Price Guides
- Support Worker Pay Increase
- Therapy Pricing Changes and Travel Clarification
- Plan Management and Intermediary Changes
- Extended Age for Early Childhood Support
These changes came into effect on 1st July 2025.
Support Worker Pay Increase
Your hard-working disability support workers will see a 3.95% pay increase, in line with updates to the national minimum wage and superannuation.
This means the pricing rate has gone up for many core supports, including:
- Assistance with Daily Living
- Community Participation
- In-Home Care
- Level 1 Support Coordination
- Psychosocial Recovery Coaching
This should have no negative impact on your services, the pay rise simply reflects the value of the care you already receive.
Therapy Pricing Changes and Travel Clarification
Now all the states and territories are the same rates for therapy services, yay! Here is how some have changed to nationally standardize the pricing:
- Psychology: +$10 in QLD, NSW, VIC but -$11.23 elsewhere
- Physiotherapy: -18% in some regions
- Dietetics & Podiatry: -2.6% across the board
Therapists can now only bill 50% of the hourly rate for travel, capped at 30min (metro) or 60min (remote). This means you may have to plan your support a little differently, especially in rural and regional areas.
Also confirmed: Personal Trainers are no longer considered therapy providers under NDIS.
Plan Management & Intermediary Changes
It’s a mixed bag for NDIS plan managers and intermediaries.
- The once-standard setup fee has been removed (a 15.6% drop in first-year income for plan managers)
- The monthly fee remains unchanged
- Remote area loadings have been discontinued
For providers in remote and regional Australia, this may create new challenges. But for participants, it means greater simplicity and more consistent pricing.
Extended Age for Early Childhood Support
Families of young children take note:
The early childhood approach now supports kids up to 9 years old, up from the previous cap of 7. This gives families more time to access early intervention through NDIS early childhood services.
What the NDIS Price Guide Means for You
These pricing changes will shape how you manage and use your NDIS plan.
If you receive…
- SDA (Specialist Disability Accommodation)
- SIL (Supported Independent Living)
- Support Coordination
- Early childhood intervention
- Therapies and allied health support
…then it’s worth reviewing your plan with your support coordinator or plan manager.
Now is the time to check that your supports are aligned with your goals and that your funding is being used effectively.
Below is a link to the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits website, where you can also download the PDF version if you would like to take a more in depth explore:
https://www.ndis.gov.au/providers/pricing-arrangements