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AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 48.1

Amount of home care subsidy

  (1)   The amount of * home care subsidy payable to an approved provider for a home care service in respect of a * payment period is the amount worked out by adding together the amounts of home care subsidy for each care recipient:

  (a)   in respect of whom there is in force a * home care agreement for provision of home care provided through the service during the period; and

  (b)   in respect of whom the approved provider was eligible for home care subsidy during the period.

  (2)   The amount of * home care subsidy for a care recipient in respect of the * payment period is worked out as follows:

Home care subsidy calculator

Step 1.   Work out the Commonwealth contribution amount using section   48 - 1A.

Step 2.   Work out the shortfall amount using section   48 - 13.

Step 3.   If subsection   (3) does not apply, work out, using section   48 - 17, the home care account balance in the care recipient's * home care account immediately before the approved provider gives to the Secretary, under section   47 - 4, a claim in respect of the * payment period.

Step 4.   Identify:

  (a)   if subsection   (3) applies--the Commonwealth contribution amount; or

  (b)   otherwise--the sum of the Commonwealth contribution amount and the home care account balance.

This is the maximum contribution amount .

Step 5.   Identify the lesser of the following amounts (or either amount if they are the same):

  (a)   the shortfall amount;

  (b)   the maximum contribution amount.

This is the amount of home care subsidy for the care recipient in respect of the * payment period.

  (3)   This subsection applies if:

  (a)   within the period specified in the Subsidy Principles before the day the approved provider gives to the Secretary, under section   47 - 4, the claim in respect of the * payment period, another approved provider ceases to provide home care to the care recipient; or

  (b)   any other circumstances specified in the Subsidy Principles apply.



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