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How to Move out of Home

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Written by: Zac Budge
First Published: 15 October, 2025

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My family and I came up with a plan a year ago to help me start making a plan to move out of home. I had to look at how I could move into an ILO (independent living option) house.

I went to my OT to talk about how to move into an ILO home. My OT then started an application with the NDIS for an ILO. A year later, she was done with the ILO application. I got to have a look, with my family and support coordinator, at the application. I told her to fix up some issues with the ILO application, and she did that for me.

After that, I got a final copy of the ILO application from my OT. We will now have a meeting with my family and support coordinator about the report about moving out of home. It is going to take one month for my support coordinator to complete the report. I will look at the report and then we will have a meeting together about the change of plan paperwork I need to fill out.

Finally, my support coordinator can put in the ILO application, his report, and the change of plan paperwork to the NDIS. In the future, we will meet with the NDIS to talk about it.

I feel very happy and excited about moving out of home. I am very thankful for my team doing the work and paperwork so I can complete my goal.

Just this year, I have started to update my plan information with my support coordinator. We are putting the right information on my plan. Now I will be the only nominee for my NDIS. I am very happy my plan is going to be updated.

When we update my plan information, we have to wait a long time. It has to go through the computer system, then to my plan manager, then my support coordinator and me. Then it will finally be updated, I have been waiting five months for my plan to be updated by the NDIS.

I call the NDIS every three months about when my plan will finally be updated, the person on the phone always tells me, it’s still on my plan manager’s desk.

I am keeping hopeful that my plan will be updated one day, or one year, or one month, when the NDIS get around to it. I need to be very patient for it.

Photograph of a young man with fair skin, short cropped light brown hair and a buck-toothed smile wearing wire rimmed glasses. He is looking down at the camera. Behind him, we can see a ceiling fan and white rafters.

About the Author

My name is Zac and I have a disability, autism, and I like hip hop music, and I like to get to know people.

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