22 NDIS Support Items Stop Working on 30 September 2026

Key Takeaways

• 22 NDIS support items carry an end date of 30 September 2026. After that date a claim against any of them is rejected. The list is published in one place only: the "Legacy Support Items" sheet of the NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27.
• The word "legacy" does not appear anywhere in the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27. Neither does "end date", "expire" or "cease". The retirements exist in a spreadsheet tab and are explained in no accompanying document.
• The plan manager setup fee, item 14_031_0127_8_3 at $65.09, has no replacement. From 1 October 2026 the entire Improved Life Choices support category contains two items: the $104.45 monthly fee (14_034_0127_8_3) and the bereavement payment.
• Two community nursing items at a flat $124.05 an hour are retired: 15_036_0114_1_3 (Individual Assessment and Support by a Nurse) and 15_051_0114_1_3 (Community Nursing Care for Continence Aid). Nursing must then be claimed against the classification-based series, where an enrolled nurse on a weekday daytime is $103.44 and a registered nurse is $128.05.
• 21 of the 22 items have been on death row before. Thirteen were due to end 31 March 2026 and eight were due to end 31 December 2025. Both dates passed and both were extended to 30 September 2026.
• The extensions are not a pattern you can rely on. Seven items on the 2025-26 legacy sheet were genuinely deleted rather than rolled forward, so roughly one in four of last year's condemned items actually died on schedule.
• Only one item is newly condemned. 05_120000115_0105_1_2 (AT Rental, Personal Mobility and Transfer) was an open-ended current item in 2025-26 and now carries a 30 September 2026 end date.

Twenty-two NDIS support items stop being claimable after 30 September 2026. They include two community nursing items at $124.05 an hour, the $65.09 plan manager setup fee, and nineteen assistive technology and home modification items. Claims submitted against a retired item after its end date are rejected, so the work is to remap each one before the date.

This is not in the pricing document. It is in the second sheet of the support catalogue spreadsheet, which is why almost every summary of the 2026-27 prices missed it entirely.

What is a legacy support item?

A legacy support item is a support item number that still appears in the NDIS Support Catalogue but carries a real end date instead of the open-ended 99991231 that every current item carries. You can still claim against it up to and including that date. After it, the item number is dead and the claim fails.

The catalogue splits into two sheets to reflect this. "Current Support Items" holds 976 items for 2026-27. "Legacy Support Items" holds 41, each with a date attached. The NDIA uses the legacy sheet as a runway: when an item is restructured, renamed or split into variants, the old number stays claimable for a period so that quotes already issued, assistive technology already ordered and service agreements already signed do not break on 1 July.

The mechanism is sound. The communication around it is the problem. The NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27 is the document providers actually read when prices change, and it contains no reference to the legacy sheet, no list of retiring items and no explanation of what happens to a claim against one. We searched the full text of version 1.2 for "legacy", "end date", "expire", "cease" and "discontinued" and found zero occurrences of each.

Which NDIS support items are retired on 30 September 2026?

All 22, with the replacement item where one exists. Rates shown are national, from the NDIS Support Catalogue 2026-27. Assistive technology items are priced per unit at quote rather than at a fixed rate, so no dollar figure is shown for them.

The renumbering pattern worth knowing

Most of the assistive technology replacements follow a rule. The seventh to ninth digits of the item number change, usually from 111 to 811, while the rest of the number stays identical. 05_091203111_0103_1_2 becomes 05_091203811_0103_1_2. 05_180909111_0103_1_2 becomes 05_180909811_0103_1_2.

Two cautions. First, the mapping is not always one to one: Shower Commode splits into four variants (standard, low transporter, high intensity need, tilt in space), and the higher-needs hearing aid item is replaced by a three-level structure. Choosing the right variant is now a decision you have to make rather than a number you can find and replace.

Second, at least one replacement narrows the scope. 05_121221111_0109_1_2 covered "Hoist/Ramp for Wheelchair Loading". Its successor 05_121221811_0109_1_2 covers "Hoist/Ramp for Unoccupied Wheelchair Loading", and occupied loading now sits in a separate item, 05_121218811_0109_1_2. A straight number swap here would put the claim against the wrong item.

What happens to community nursing claims?

The two retiring nursing items are flat-rate holdovers. 15_036_0114_1_3 and 15_051_0114_1_3 both pay $124.05 an hour regardless of who delivers the support or when. Both have sat unindexed at that figure across 2025-26 and 2026-27, which is itself a signal that the NDIA had stopped maintaining them.

The replacement structure is not new. A classification-based nursing series has run alongside them since at least 2025-26, split five ways by nurse classification and six ways by day and time. From 1 October 2026 it becomes the only way to claim nursing supports.

That changes the economics, and not uniformly. Rates below are national, per hour, from Tables 8 to 12 of the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27.

The comparison column is calculated, not published by the NDIA.

The practical read: if you have been staffing continence care or nursing assessments with enrolled nurses and claiming the flat legacy rate, your revenue on that work falls by $20.61 an hour from 1 October. If you use registered nurses or above, or deliver on weekends, you are better off, in the registered nurse Sunday case by $86.04 an hour. Either way the correct item now depends on the classification of the person who actually attended, which makes rostering records a claiming record.

Note there are two parallel series at identical rates: 01_600 to 01_629 sits in Assistance with Daily Life, and 15_400 to 15_429 sits in Improved Daily Living Skills. Which you use depends on the participant's plan budget, not on the support.

Why plan managers lose a fee with nothing to replace it

14_031_0127_8_3, described in the catalogue as "CB and Training in Plan and Financial Management by a Plan Manager" and used in practice as the one-off setup fee, pays $65.09. It is retired on 30 September 2026 and nothing takes its place.

We checked this directly against the catalogue rather than inferring it. After 30 September, the Improved Life Choices support category contains exactly two live items: 14_034_0127_8_3, Plan Management Monthly Fee, at $104.45 a month, and the bereavement payment at the same value. A search of all 976 current items for any name containing "setup", "set up" or "establishment" returns only the 01_049 and 04_049 Establishment Fee for Personal Care/Participation items at $735.80, which are unrelated to plan management.

For a plan manager onboarding participants at volume, this is a straightforward revenue line disappearing on a known date. Establishment work does not disappear with it, so the cost of onboarding has to come out of the monthly fee from October. Worth modelling now against your intake forecast, and worth checking whether any of your current service agreements quote the setup fee to participants as a separate charge, because those need rewording before the date.

Have these deadlines been extended before?

Yes, and this is the part that decides how seriously to take the date.

We pulled the last published 2025-26 Support Catalogue from the NDIA pricing archive and compared its legacy sheet against the 2026-27 one, item by item. Of the 22 items now due to end on 30 September 2026:

• 13 were previously due to end on 31 March 2026. That date passed and they were extended by six months.
• 8 were previously due to end on 31 December 2025. That date passed and they were extended by nine months.
• 1 is newly condemned. 05_120000115_0105_1_2 (AT Rental, Personal Mobility and Transfer) was a current item with the open-ended 99991231 date in 2025-26 and now has nine months to live.

So for 21 of the 22, this is at least the second deadline they have carried. It would be reasonable to conclude the dates are soft.

That conclusion is wrong, and the same comparison shows why. Seven items that appeared on the 2025-26 legacy sheet are simply gone from the 2026-27 catalogue: two postural support items, a power-assist drive accessory, a mobile hoist seat, a personal amplifier hearing device, and two no-structural-work home modification items. They reached their end dates and were deleted. That is roughly one in four of last year's condemned items dying on schedule.

The honest position is that an extension is likely but not safe to plan around, and that the cost of remapping early is close to zero while the cost of being wrong is a rejected claim on work already delivered.

What is coming after 30 September 2026?

Two further waves sit on the same sheet, and the second one is larger than the one in front of it.

The Short Term Accommodation block deserves attention now even though the date is well out. All 16 items were current, open-ended items in 2025-26 and have been moved onto the legacy sheet in one go. That is the whole ratio-based STA pricing structure being retired at once, and it carries the largest dollar values on the sheet. If you deliver STA, the structure you quote against today has a published expiry date, and the replacement structure is not yet visible in the catalogue.

What to do before 30 September 2026

1. Export your last twelve months of claims and filter on the 22 item numbers above. Anything with a hit is exposure. This takes minutes and tells you whether the rest of the list matters to you at all.
2. Map each affected item to its replacement, and pick the variant deliberately where the old item has split into several. Do not do a blind find and replace, particularly on the wheelchair loading items where the scope changed.
3. Check quotes and service bookings that extend past 30 September. A quote approved in August against a retired item number will not pay in October. Assistive technology and home modification lead times routinely cross the date, which is why the AT and HM items dominate this list.
4. For nursing, reconcile rosters to claims. The replacement item depends on the classification of the nurse who attended and the day and time. Confirm your records support the item you intend to claim.
5. For plan management, model the loss of the $65.09 setup fee into your intake costing, and amend any service agreement that itemises it.
6. Update your service agreements. Any agreement naming a specific support item number needs the new number. Our NDIS service agreement requirements checklist covers what else those agreements must carry.
7. Diarise the check against the rest of the 1 October wave, since the SIL and platform registration cut-off and the myID and RAM portal lockout land in the same week. See NDIS changes on 1 October 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens if I claim against a retired NDIS support item after 30 September 2026?

The claim is rejected. A legacy support item is claimable up to and including its end date, and the item number stops working after it. Because the support has usually already been delivered by the time a claim is submitted, a rejection at that point is unrecoverable revenue rather than a correctable error.

Where does the NDIA publish the list of retiring support items?

In one place only: the "Legacy Support Items" sheet of the NDIS Support Catalogue spreadsheet, published on the support catalogue page. It is the second tab, so it is invisible to anyone reading only the first. The NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27 does not mention legacy items, end dates or retirements anywhere in its text.

Will the 30 September 2026 date be extended again?

Possibly, but it is not safe to assume. Of the 22 items, 21 have already had at least one earlier end date extended, which makes an extension look routine. Against that, seven items on the 2025-26 legacy sheet were deleted on schedule rather than rolled forward. Roughly one in four condemned items actually died.

Does the plan manager setup fee have a replacement item?

No. Item 14_031_0127_8_3 at $65.09 retires on 30 September 2026 and no new item replaces it. From 1 October the Improved Life Choices category holds only the monthly plan management fee (14_034_0127_8_3, $104.45) and the bereavement payment. Establishment work must be absorbed into the monthly fee.

How do I claim community nursing after the flat-rate items retire?

Against the classification-based series, 01_600 to 01_629 for Assistance with Daily Life budgets or 15_400 to 15_429 for Improved Daily Living Skills budgets. The correct item depends on the nurse's classification (enrolled, registered, clinical, clinical nurse consultant or nurse practitioner) and on the day and time of the support, so it ranges from $103.44 to $339.84 an hour.

Are Short Term Accommodation items being retired too?

Yes, but not until 30 June 2027. All 16 items in the STA ratio series (1:1 through 1:4, across weekday, Saturday, Sunday and public holiday, $708.75 to $4,270.25) moved onto the legacy sheet in the 2026-27 catalogue after being open-ended current items in 2025-26. No replacement structure has been published yet.

Does this affect assistive technology quotes already issued?

Yes, if the quote names a retired item number and the support will be claimed after 30 September 2026. Nineteen of the 22 retiring items are assistive technology or home modification items, and those categories routinely have lead times that cross the date. Reissue any affected quote against the replacement item number before the cutover.