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NDIS Budget 'Roll Over Funds'

“Roll Over Funds” lets you move remaining NDIS budget amounts from one plan budget into another. It’s designed for situations like plan transitions, where you need to carry forward unspent amounts into a new budget period.

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Written by Sarah May
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Where to find Roll Over Funds

  1. Open a client profile.

  2. Go to Funding → Budget.

  3. Find the budget you want to roll funds from.

  4. Open the budget Actions menu and select Roll Over Funds.

Tip: Roll Over is available when the client has more than one budget, because you need a source budget and a target budget.

You can also access Roll Over from Budget Activity for a budget (via the “Roll Over” action in the activity screen).

How Roll Over Funds works (what it actually does)

When you roll over funds, you are selecting:

  • A Source Budget (the budget you are rolling from)

  • A Target Budget (the budget you are rolling into)

  • The amounts per category you want to move

Imploy validates that you cannot roll over more than what is actually remaining in each category.

Once confirmed, the rollover is recorded as budget activity so it’s visible in reporting/auditing views.

Step-by-step: Rolling over funds

Step 1: Choose the target budget

In the Roll Over modal:

  • You’ll see the source budget period and remaining total.

  • Select the target budget from the dropdown.

If no target budget is available, you’ll be prompted to create another budget first.

Step 2: Choose how much to roll over

You have two options:

Option A: Roll over all remaining funds

  • Tick Roll over all remaining funds

  • Imploy auto-fills each category with its remaining amount

Option B: Roll over selected amounts per category

  • Enter amounts against the categories you want to roll over

  • Leave other categories blank if you don’t want to roll them over

Step 3: Confirm and roll over

  • Click the confirm action to complete the rollover

  • Imploy will show a success message with the total rolled over

What you’ll see after rolling over

Budget Activity view

After rollover, the budget’s Budget Activity will reflect the movement. You’ll be able to see rollover entries recorded against the relevant categories (so you can audit what moved and when).

Utilisation and remaining balances

Because rollover changes the funding available in the target budget, it can affect:

  • Category remaining amounts

  • Budget totals/remaining

  • Utilisation tracking for the target period

Rules, checks, and common issues

You can’t roll over without a target budget

  • Roll Over requires at least two budgets for the client.

You can’t exceed remaining category balances

  • If you enter an amount higher than the remaining balance in a category, Imploy will block the rollover and prompt you to adjust it.

“Roll over all remaining funds” disables manual selection

  • If you tick “roll over all”, amounts are auto-filled based on remaining balances.

Best-practice tips

  • Roll over into the correct plan period budget (double-check the target budget dates).

  • If you only need to carry specific categories forward, roll over category-by-category instead of “all remaining”.

  • Use Budget Activity after rollover to confirm the record is correct (especially for internal audits).

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