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Does the NDIS Cover Lawn Mowing?
Lawn mowing and the NDIS: the yard maintenance item, its current hourly price limit and loadings, and what decides whether garden help enters a plan.
The short answer
Yard maintenance is a real line in the current Support Catalogue with an hourly price limit. Whether mowing support belongs in your plan turns on disability-related need, not on the lawn.
Lawn mowing reaches the scheme through the catalogue’s house and yard maintenance item, which sits under core daily-life support alongside cleaning. The existence question is settled; the plan question is the live one, and it runs on what your disability changes about keeping a yard rather than on the task itself.
The NDIS funds supports it decides are reasonable and necessary for your goals. The same item can be approved for one participant and not another, so no list or website can tell you what your plan will include.
Where it sits and what providers can charge
As with every catalogue ceiling, the limit binds plan-managed and NDIA-managed claims while self-managed participants can agree their own prices. Suburb-by-suburb mowing quotes vary for ordinary market reasons and say nothing about what your plan includes.
Yard maintenance appears under Assistance with Daily Life (Core) in the current NDIS Support Catalogue.
Price limits carry a 40% loading in remote areas (MMM 6) and 50% in very remote areas (MMM 7) under the Pricing Arrangements. As of 2026-07-01 · NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits
| Support item | Code | National | Remote | Very remote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House or Yard Maintenance (per hour) | 01_019_0120_1_1 | $59.01 | $82.61 | $88.52 |
Source: NDIS Support Catalogue, effective (Pricing Arrangements). Price limits are GST-exclusive and are ceilings, not fixed prices. Self-managed participants can agree different prices.
What decides your plan
The reasonable-and-necessary test does the deciding: the functional impact of your disability on yard tasks, whether support fills a genuine gap, and how the help connects to keeping your home liveable and your plan goals on track. A tidy lawn is not the claim - disability-related need is.
Hiring help
Local operators come and go, which is why provider-finding lives in the directory rather than on this page. Put any ongoing arrangement in a service agreement and confirm the claim path with your plan manager before the first visit.
Agency-managed participants generally need to purchase through registered NDIS providers. Self-managed and plan-managed participants can buy from any suitable supplier.
Before you act on this
If you intend to claim, check with your plan manager or support coordinator before purchasing.
Whether yard maintenance support can be claimed depends on your individual plan, your goals, and how your funding is managed. Your plan manager or support coordinator can confirm what applies to you.
Questions people ask
Is lawn mowing an NDIS support?
The current Support Catalogue lists house and yard maintenance as a line item under core daily-life support, with an hourly price limit. Whether mowing support enters your plan depends on the reasonable-and-necessary test - the disability-related need behind the help, not the task itself.
What rate applies to NDIS lawn mowing?
The yard maintenance item carries an hourly price limit, shown in the table on this page along with its remote and very remote loadings. The figure is a ceiling for plan-managed and NDIA-managed arrangements; self-managed participants can agree different prices under the published rules.
Can any gardener invoice my plan?
It depends on how your funding is managed. NDIA-managed funding goes only to registered providers, while plan-managed and self-managed participants can also use unregistered local operators. A service agreement and a check with your plan manager before the first visit keeps the claim path clean.
Does the NDIS pay for garden makeovers?
The catalogue item is maintenance - recurring help with yard tasks a disability makes hard. One-off landscaping sits a long way from that framing and close to the everyday costs the supports lists exclude. Test any larger job with your plan manager before committing to it.
Is there a separate rate for my suburb?
No. Catalogue price limits are national, with published loadings for remote and very remote areas rather than suburb-level rates. Local quote differences reflect the ordinary market, so compare them against the catalogue ceiling and your plan arrangement rather than against other suburbs.
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