Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 - SECT 58.3C

Care recipients to whom this section applies

  (1)   This section applies to a care recipient if:

  (a)   the care recipient is a * pre - 2008 reform resident; and

  (b)   on 19   September 2009, the care recipient did not have a dependent child; and

  (c)   on 19   September 2009, one or more of the following requirements is met:

  (i)   the care recipient was not receiving an * income support payment;

  (ii)   for * entry to the residential care service in question, the care recipient had paid an * accommodation bond that was more than the amount obtained by rounding to the nearest $500.00 (rounding $250.00 upwards) an amount equal to 10 times the * basic age pension amount at the time of entry;

  (iii)   the * daily income tested reduction in respect of the care recipient was an amount worked out under section   44 - 23; and

  (d)   on 20   September 2009 and on each day since that day, the care recipient does not have a * dependent child; and

  (e)   on 20   September 2009 and on each day since that day, one or more of the following requirements is met:

  (i)   the care recipient is not receiving an * income support payment;

  (ii)   if the care recipient * entered the residential care service in question before 20   September 2009--the care recipient paid an * accommodation bond for the entry that was more than the amount obtained by rounding to the nearest $500.00 (rounding $250.00 upwards) an amount equal to 10 times the * basic age pension amount at the time of entry;

  (iii)   if the care recipient * entered the residential care service in question on or after 20   September 2009--the care recipient paid an * accommodation bond that was more than the amount obtained by rounding to the nearest $500.00 (rounding $250.00 upwards) an amount equal to 9 times the * basic age pension amount at the time of entry;

  (iv)   the * daily income tested reduction in respect of the care recipient was an amount worked out under section   44 - 23.

  (2)   For the purposes of subparagraphs   (1)(c)(ii), (1)(e)(ii) and (1)(e)(iii), if the care recipient has elected under subsection   57 - 17(1) to pay an * accommodation bond by periodic payments, the amount of the accommodation bond is taken to be what would have been payable by the care recipient in accordance with Subdivision   57 - E had the care recipient paid it as a lump sum.

Standard resident contribution

  (3)   The standard resident contribution for a care recipient to whom this section applies is the amount obtained by rounding down to the nearest cent an amount equal to 96.5% of the * basic age pension amount (worked out on a per day basis).