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Budget Forecast Estimate

This form is used to produce an estimate of the cost of your scheduled supports and how they fit in with your plan funding and funding periods. The summary produced is for guidance only and any fluctuations in the frequency of your supports, or the cost of those supports will decrease the accuracy of this estimate.

You will need

Your remaining budget for one support category. Find it in the my NDIS app, the NDIS portal, or your plan manager.
Your plan end date, and your funding period dates if your plan has them.
The hours of support you get now, or the hours you would like.

1. Your plan

Core funding is flexible, so you can combine all four Core categories and enter the total Core balance. Capacity Building and Capital categories can't be combined, so use one at a time, for example Capacity Building: 15 Improved Daily Living for therapy. Example figures are filled in; replace them with yours.

Participant (name or other identifier)

Budget category

State or territory (for school terms)

Where the participant lives

Money left in this category ($)

Supports received but not yet claimed ($)

Balance checked on

Plan end date

2. Funding periods

Many newer NDIS plans release money in funding periods, often every three months. You can only spend what has been released so far.

Does your plan use funding periods?

Length of each funding period (months)

Available now in this period ($)

This funding period ends

Enter funding period amounts manually

The periods below are worked out from your balance date, this period's end date, the period length and your plan end date. Change any dates to match your plan; the periods after it move to follow on. Enter the amount released in each future period (an equal share is filled in to start with). Money left over moves into the next period; a shortfall can't be covered by a later period.

Period	Dates	Amount released ($)	Supports cost	Left over / short

3. Am I on track? (optional)

Compares how much of this period's money is used with how much of the period has passed. When you enter the start date, the period end date in section 2 is filled in using the funding period length.

This funding period started

Amount released at the start ($)

4. Other providers using this budget (optional)

If another provider is paid from the same category, their costs come out of the same money.

Their support hours / week

Other costs they charge $ / week

5. About your support workers

These settings change the support worker rates. They only show for Core budgets. Not sure? Leave these as they are, or check your service agreement.

Support level

Shared support

Workers at a time

6. Your scheduled supports

Enter the hours you get now, or the hours you'd like, and choose how often: each week, fortnight, month or school term, or once only. Everything is converted to a weekly cost (a month is counted as 4.35 weeks). For "Per school term", enter the total hours in each term (for example, 3 sessions of 1 hour = 3) and choose your state in section 1. School holidays are not charged. Use Schedule under any line to set start and end dates, run it only during school terms, or pick which terms (for example Terms 1 and 3 in 2027). Cost / week is the average across the rest of the plan. The calculator keeps the same mix of days and tells you what your budget can cover.

Add a support item from the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27 (items for the budget category chosen in section 1)

When	Hours	How often	Hourly rate	Cost / week
Total support	-	a week		-

Does your provider charge less than the NDIS maximum?

Group activities

Enter each group activity, the ratio of workers to participants, and the 1:1 hourly rate. The calculator works out the most that can be charged to each participant: 1:1 rate × workers ÷ participants. Rates are used as entered; the location and support worker settings don't change them.

Activity	Ratio (workers : participants)	1:1 rate ($/hr)	Max group rate	Hours	How often	Cost / week

Therapy rates. Therapy rates are the same any day of the week; only the location setting in section 1 changes them. Therapist travel is charged at half the therapy rate, and only if your service agreement says so. It adds to the cost but is not counted as support hours.

Public holidays and the Other line. Public holidays only happen a few times a year, so enter an average. For example, 8 hours on each of 6 public holidays is 48 hours a year: enter 4 hours, Monthly. Use the Other line for any support with its own price: type a name, the hours, how often, and the hourly rate exactly as your service agreement shows it. The location setting in section 1 and the support worker settings are not applied to the Other line.

Travel and other charges. Travel, and work done when you're not there (like report writing), can only be charged if your service agreement says so. Check your agreement for what applies to you.

Hourly rates used (edit these if your provider charges less)

These are the maximum prices set by the NDIS. Your provider may charge less. If so, change the numbers here to match your service agreement. Any rate you change is highlighted, and every calculation updates straight away.

When	Standard ($/hr)	High intensity ($/hr)

Worker travel $ per km

Sleepover $ each

This funding period: available: -
Weeks left in period: -
Cost to end of period: -
Left over / short: -
Most hours a week this period: -
Whole plan: available: -
Used by other providers: -
Weeks until plan ends: -
Cost to plan end: -
Left over / short: -
Most hours a week to plan end: -
Money runs out: -

Hourly rate for remaining hours ($/hr)

Leave blank to use your average cost per hour.

Remaining hours at this rate: -
This funding period: -
To plan end: -
Per week to plan end: -

A guide only. It is not financial advice and not a funding decision. Your NDIS plan, the my NDIS app, or your plan manager's statement is the official record.