What Is Covered Under NDIS Home Cleaning?

Yes, the NDIS can pay for house cleaning. NDIS home cleaning covers essential household tasks a participant cannot perform due to their disability, including vacuuming, mopping, kitchen and bathroom sanitisation, dusting and laundry.

It is funded under Core Supports (Assistance with Daily Life) at a capped national weekday rate of $60.10 per hour for 2026-2027, provided the support meets reasonable criteria.

A clean, safe home is not a luxury; for many participants it is the difference between managing at home and not.

Yet cleaning is also one of the most misunderstood NDIS supports, partly because most of what you read about it is written by cleaning companies.

This guide sets out plainly what NDIS cleaning covers, what it does not, what the current rate caps are, and how to claim it under each plan management type.

What NDIS home cleaning includes

When cleaning is funded in your plan, a support worker or cleaner can help with routine household tasks that your disability prevents you from doing safely or independently:

• General house cleaning: vacuuming, mopping, dusting and tidying living areas
• Bathroom and toilet cleaning
• Kitchen cleaning, dishes and benchtops
• Laundry: washing, drying, folding and changing bed linen
• Rubbish and recycling taken out
• Light decluttering to keep walkways and spaces safe

Cleaning often sits alongside other daily living supports in the same visits, such as meal preparation or personal care. Bundling them with one provider usually means fewer people in your home and simpler scheduling.

One-off and specialised cleans the NDIS may fund

Beyond the regular fortnightly or weekly clean, the NDIS can in some circumstances fund deeper interventions, such as an intensive clean where a home has become unsafe, including supports related to hoarding and squalor where they connect to your disability.

These are assessed case by case and usually need supporting evidence, such as an occupational therapist’s report.

A note on searches like NDIS window cleaning, carpet cleaning and pressure cleaning: routine internal window and carpet upkeep can fall within household tasks, but exterior and heavy property maintenance, such as pressure washing driveways, generally sits under home maintenance considerations rather than cleaning, and is funded only where it clearly relates to your disability needs.

Be cautious with companies marketing themselves as “NDIS approved” pressure cleaners; the NDIS does not approve companies in that sense, and the funding test is always whether the support is reasonable and necessary for you.

What NDIS cleaning does NOT cover

This is the part cleaning companies rarely spell out. The NDIS will generally not fund:

• Cleaning that mainly benefits other household members; if you live with family, the NDIS funds the share of cleaning related to your disability, not the whole household’s housework
• Day-to-day costs everyone has, such as cleaning products and equipment for ordinary use
• Regular gardening and lawn mowing as a lifestyle preference, as distinct from disability-related yard safety needs
• Cleaning you can reasonably do yourself, or that informal supports already provide
• Commercial or business premises cleaning

The test is always the NDIS “reasonable and necessary” criteria: the support must relate to your disability, help you pursue your goals, represent value for money, and not replace what family or other systems would ordinarily provide.

If cleaning is not yet in your plan, our guide to how to access NDIS cleaning walks through building the case, including how an OT report strengthens it.

NDIS cleaning rates for 2026-27

Cleaning is claimed under household tasks within Core Supports.

Under the NDIS pricing arrangements for 2026-27 (in effect from 1 July 2026), the national price limit for household tasks on a standard weekday is $60.10 per hour, with higher limits for remote and very remote areas.

Evening, weekend and public holiday deliveries have their own separate, higher published limits.

Price limits are caps, not set prices; providers can charge less, and unregistered cleaners used by self-managed participants often do.

The limits are updated every July, so check the current pricing arrangements, or read our plain-English NDIS price guide for what changed this year and what it means for your budget.

Which budget does cleaning come from?

Cleaning sits in your Core Supports budget under Assistance with Daily Life.

Core is the most flexible budget in an NDIS plan: within it, funding can generally move between daily living supports, so participants often adjust the balance between cleaning, personal care and community access as needs change through the year. What you cannot do is move money from Capacity Building or Capital budgets into cleaning.

How to claim cleaning under your plan management type

Self-managed

You have the most flexibility. You can engage registered or unregistered providers, including independent cleaners, negotiate rates (which do not have to follow the price limits, though they are a sensible benchmark), pay invoices and claim reimbursement through the my place portal. Keep invoices and records for five years.

Plan-managed

You can use registered and unregistered providers, but prices must stay within the NDIS price limits. Your plan manager pays invoices from your Core budget; you simply approve the services.

Agency-managed (NDIA-managed)

You must use registered NDIS providers, who claim directly through the NDIA portal at or below the price limits. Homage is a registered provider and supports all three management types, so cleaning can be arranged whichever way your plan is set up.

Should you get a cleaning company or a disability support provider?

Mainstream cleaning companies bring cleaning specialisation and often sharp pricing, but variable disability awareness and rotating staff.

Disability support providers deliver cleaning as part of daily living support, which means workers trained to work alongside participants, more consistent faces, and the option to combine cleaning with personal care or meal preparation in a single visit.

Neither is universally right: if you simply want the house cleaned while you are out, a cleaning company may be perfect; if you want support that adapts to your disability and your day, a support provider usually fits better.

How to get cleaning added to your NDIS plan

• Document the impact: note the tasks your disability makes unsafe or impossible, and what happens when they do not get done.
• Get evidence: an occupational therapy assessment linking household tasks to your functional capacity significantly strengthens the request.
• Frame it against your goals: living independently and safely at home is the goal cleaning supports.
• Raise it at your planning meeting or request a plan variation, and be specific about hours per week or fortnight.

Remember that having a plan does not automatically mean cleaning is funded; the support must meet the reasonable and necessary criteria for you specifically.

How many cleaning hours do participants usually get?

There is no standard allocation; hours follow need. That said, common patterns help you frame a realistic request:

• A weekly two-hour clean covering bathrooms, kitchen, floors and laundry is the most common arrangement for participants living alone
• Fortnightly cleans suit participants who can manage day-to-day tidying but not heavier tasks
• Larger homes, sensory or health considerations, assistance animals, or continence-related laundry loads all justify more frequent or longer visits
• A one-off intensive clean may be requested separately when starting from behind

When you request hours, describe the tasks and frequency rather than just asking for “cleaning”: two hours weekly for bathrooms, kitchen, floors and two loads of laundry is a request a planner can approve.

It also helps to explain the consequence of the support not being funded, such as falls risk from cluttered floors or health impacts from an unhygienic bathroom, because that is the language of reasonable and necessary.

Choosing an NDIS cleaning provider

• Check registration if you are agency-managed, and worker screening regardless: anyone working in your home should hold the relevant checks.
• Ask about disability experience, not just cleaning experience; a good NDIS cleaner works with you, respecting your routines and preferences.
• Look for consistency: the same cleaner each visit, with a backup arranged when they are away.
• Get rates in writing and compare them against the current price limits.
• Consider bundling: if you also use personal care or meal preparation, one provider delivering daily living supports together often works better than juggling several companies.

Frequently asked questions

Get cleaning sorted, properly

If keeping the house in order has become a barrier rather than a background task, that is exactly what your plan is for.

Homage delivers NDIS cleaning as part of Assistance with Daily Life, with screened local support workers, transparent rates within the price limits, and the option to combine cleaning with personal care and meal preparation in one visit.

Our Care Advisors can help you work out the hours and get started.

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