Disability related costs

If a client has a disability or a health condition, they may have additional costs associated with their disability that arise due to participating in training (eg taxi costs for transport or cost of a note-taker for lectures). A client may include these costs in their Training Incentive Allowance.

If the cost is large, the client may test their eligibility to Support Funds to cover the costs rather than using their Training Incentive Allowance.

Support Funds assist disabled people or people with a health condition to take up employment or undertake employment-related training. This is a payment of up to a maximum of $15,600 per person over their lifetime.

Note a client is not required to exhaust Support Funds prior to accessing the Training Incentive Allowance.

Support Funds can cover items like:

• support person ie interpreters, reader/writers
• teacher aide assistance.

If a client has a disability cost included in their Training Incentive Allowance, they cannot include the same cost in their Disability Allowance, Temporary Additional Support or Support Funds.