Aged Care (Community Care Subsidy Amount) Determination 2009 (No. 1)

Aged Care Act 1997

I, JUSTINE ELLIOT, Minister for Ageing, make this Determination under
subsection 48-1(3) of the Aged Care Act 1997.

Dated                    June 11th                                                           2009

JUSTINE ELLIOT

Minister for Ageing

1 Name of Determination

  This Determination is the Aged Care (Community Care Subsidy Amount) Determination 2009 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  This Determination commences on 1 July 2009.

3 Revocation

  The Aged Care Act 1997 – Determination of the amount of Community Care Subsidy under subsection 48-1(3) made on 16 June 2008, also known as ACA Ch.3 No. 18/2008 and F2008L02235, is revoked.

4 Definitions

  In this Determination:

ARIA score, in relation to a location, means the score given to that location under the document titled ‘Viability Funding — ARIA scores for locations as at 30 July 1999, published by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

5 Community Care Subsidy

 The amount of community care subsidy payable in respect of a day for a care recipient receiving community care is the sum of the following amounts:

  1. The base subsidy is $35.41; and
  2. the amount in column 3 of the following table that corresponds to the ARIA score for the geographical location at which the care recipient resides:

 

Col. 1

 

Item

Col. 2

 

ARIA score

Col. 3

Additional daily amount of community care subsidy

1

Less than 3.52

$0.00

2

More than 3.51 but less than 4.67

$2.77

3

More than 4.66 but less than 5.81

$3.34

4

More than 5.80 but less than 7.45

$4.67

5

More than 7.44 but less than 9.09

$5.61

6

More than 9.08 but less than 10.55

$7.85

7

More than 10.54

$9.41