Your 2024 and 2025 Unmet Needs Still Matter. Here Is Why You Must Document Them Now
The two years between March 2024 and early 2026 were hard for thousands of disability support families across Aotearoa.
When the 2024 purchasing guidelines came in, many families pulled back on using their funding. Not because they did not need support – but because the rules were confusing, the process felt risky, and nobody wanted to get it wrong. Support that should have been used was not. Care that should have been funded fell back on family members instead.
Those unmet needs were real. But if they were never documented, they are at serious risk of disappearing.
Here is the problem
From April 2026, flexible funding budgets for existing users are being calculated based on actual spending between June 2023 and June 2025. If your family underspent during that period because of confusion or fear under the old rules, your new budget may reflect that reduced spend, not your actual need.
Assessors from October 2026 onwards will be building personal plans based on evidence. If the evidence does not show what your family went through, the plan may not reflect what you actually need.
What good documentation looks like
A strong record for a 2026 reassessment goes beyond medical appointments. It captures daily life – what support was needed and when, what the person could and could not manage independently, how the whole family was affected. Physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions all count.
That is exactly what MyLog tracks. It records daily life across all four dimensions of Te Whare Tapa Wha and generates a clean PDF report ready to hand to an assessor.
Six months of documentation between now and October tells a real story. Six weeks does not.
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