🖤 This guide is for participants, primary carers or nominees who would like to better understand how to read a person's budget in Kismet.

Budgets show you how much funding you have on your NDIS plan (or other health plans) so you can keep on track of your spending.

This guide covers:

• Budget Summary
• Budget Detail

Before you start

You have created a Kismet account

You have downloaded the Kismet app and logged in

Budget Summary

In the Kismet app you will be shown a summary of the important information of your budgets. These amounts are:

• Total: The total amount of funding that this budget has been set up with that you can spend.
• Used: The amount that has been either spent or allocated

Budget Detail

Within a budget, there are some important numbers and terminology that you should know to be able to properly understand your balances and spending. These amounts are also colour coded in the app to make it easier to see at a glance

• Total: The total amount of funding that this budget has been set up with that you can spend.
• Allocated: The amount of money that has been 'set aside' for a particular purpose to ensure it will always be available.
• Spent: The amount of money that has been spent since the start of the plan in this particular category
• Owing: Any amounts related to invoices that are pending payment
• Remaining: The amount of money remaining that can be spent within the budget