This article explains how to use Lumary Settings to change the default rates for NDIS activity based transport and non-labour travel.
To support claiming for NDIS activity based transport and non-labour travel, users can set agreed rates on the client's service agreement. However, providers who usually apply the same rates for these services can set default values for these rates in Lumary Settings. This will mean that, if the fields are left blank on the service agreement, the system will automatically apply the default rates.
The NDIA has not set strict limits on activity based transport or non-labour travel costs. However, when this pricing was introduced, they described amounts considered to be reasonable contributions. These amounts were used to set the initial values of the default rates in Lumary:
- $2.40 per kilometre for transport with a modified vehicle or bus
- $0.85 per kilometre for transport with a non-modified vehicle, and
- $0.85 per kilometre for non-labour travel charges.
In the Pricing Arrangements effective 1 July 2022, the amounts considered to be reasonable contributions for transport were increased to:
- $2.76 per kilometre for transport with a modified vehicle or bus, and
- $0.97 per kilometre for transport with a non-modified vehicle.
In the Pricing Arrangements effective 1 July 2024, the amount considered to be a reasonable contribution for travel was increased to:
- $0.99 per kilometre for non-labour travel charges.
You'll need to update agreements created prior to Lumary 21 to apply increases you make to default charges. You'll need to clear the values from the agreements' travel and/or transport rate fields. New SD records generated from the agreement will then use the updated default rates.
To change the default rates for NDIS activity based transport and/or non-labour travel for your environment:
- Go to Lumary Settings. You may need to click on the More tab or App Launcher
nine ball grid to find this option.
- Click on the Travel and Transport tab.
- Go to the following fields and update their values:
- Travel Non-Labour Rate
- Non-Modified Vehicle Transport Rate, and/or
- Modified Vehicle Transport Rate.
- Click on the Save button.