This instrument is the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (March Home Care and Flexible Care Subsidy Increase) Instrument 2025.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 March 2025	1 March 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the following:

(a) the Aged Care Act 1997;

(b) the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—S ubsidy paid under the Aged Care Act 1997

Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014

1 Amendments of listed provisions—increased amounts

The provisions listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendments relating to increased amounts
Item	Provision	Omit	Substitute
1	Subsection 70(1)	$14.24	$14.25
2	Subsection 70(2)	$17.80	$17.81
3	Paragraph 72(1)(a)	$22.57	$22.59
4	Paragraph 72(1)(b)	$25.34	$25.37
5	Subsection 72(2)	$28.21 for bolus feeding and $31.68 for non-bolus feeding	$28.24 for bolus feeding and $31.71 for non-bolus feeding
6	Subsection 106(2)	$248.81	$249.06
7	Subsection 106(3)	$5.01	$5.02
8	Subsection 106B(2)	$248.81	$249.06
9	Subsection 106B(3)	$5.01	$5.02

2 Section 67 (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Basic subsidy amount
Item	Level of home care	Amount ($)
1	Level 1	29.31
2	Level 2	51.54
3	Level 3	112.18
4	Level 4	170.07

3 Section 84A (table to the definition of ARIA value viability supplement amount)

Repeal the table, substitute:

ARIA value viability supplement amount
Item	ARIA value	Amount ($)
1	Less than 3.51	0.00
2	At least 3.52 but less than 4.66	6.74
3	At least 4.67 but less than 5.80	8.07
4	At least 5.81 but less than 7.44	11.29
5	At least 7.45 but less than 9.08	13.54
6	At least 9.09 but less than 10.54	18.96
7	At least 10.55	22.78

4 Section 84A (table to the definition of MMM classification viability supplement amount)

Repeal the table, substitute:

MMM classification viability supplement amount
Item	Modified Monash Model classification	Amount ($)
1	MMM 1	0.00
2	MMM 2	0.00
3	MMM 3	0.00
4	MMM 4	1.29
5	MMM 5	2.87
6	MMM 6	18.96
7	MMM 7	22.78

Note: In 2025, the Modified Monash Model classification for a suburb or locality was available at the Health Department’s website http://www.health.gov.au.

5 Section 96A (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Aged care wage supplement amount
Item	Person place allocated to	Amount ($)
1	Churches of Christ Care in Queensland	25.74
2	Huon Eldercare Limited	30.16
3	Norfolk Island Health and Residential Aged Care Services	14.62
4	Any other person	0.00

Maximum daily prices for care management and package management
Item	If, on the day, the care recipient’s level of care as a prioritised home care recipient determined under subsection 23B‑1(1) of the Act is …	the maximum price for care management for the day for the care recipient is … ($)	and the maximum price for package management for the day for the care recipient is … ($)
1	Level 1	5.86	4.40
2	Level 2	10.31	7.73
3	Level 3	22.44	16.83
4	Level 4	34.01	25.51