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
This Determination is the Aged Care (Community Care Subsidy Amount) Determination 2009 (No. 1).
This Determination commences on 1 July 2009.
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.
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:
- The base subsidy is $35.41; and
- 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 |