Aged Care Means Testing
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1 Overview of Aged Care Means Testing
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1.1 Legislative responsibility
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1.2 Residential Aged Care and Home Care
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1.2.1 Approved provider
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1.2.2 Approval of care recipients
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1.2.3 Ageing in place
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1.2.4 Resident agreements
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2 Funding for Residential Aged Care
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2.1 Residential care subsidy
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2.1.1 DVA pays care subsidy for cardholders
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2.2 Resident contribution to their care and accommodation
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2.2.1 Special provisions for former prisoners of war
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2.2.2 Residents who cannot afford to pay
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3 Residential Aged Care Fees and Payments
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3.1 Overview of Aged Care Fees and Payments
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3.1.1 Post 1 July 2014 rules
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3.1.2 Continuing care residents (Pre 1 July 2014 rules)
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3.2 Residential Aged Care Fees
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3.2.1 Overview
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3.2.2 Basic Fee
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3.2.3 Means tested care fee
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3.3 Accommodation Costs
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3.3.1 Overview
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3.3.2 Who can be asked to meet their accommodation costs
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3.3.3 Resident options
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3.3.4 How are the accommodation costs calculated
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3.3.5 Time frame to pay accommodation costs
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3.3.6 Refund of accommodation costs
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3.4 Continuing care residents (Pre 1 July 2014 rules)
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3.4.1 Overview
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3.4.2 Basic Fee
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3.4.3 Income-Tested Fee
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3.4.4 Accommodation Bonds
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3.4.5 Accommodation Charge
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3.4.6 Leaving Residential Aged Care
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4 Aged Care Means Testing
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4.1 Income and assets assessments for aged care
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4.2 Collecting income and assets information
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4.2.1 Outcome of an income and assets assessment
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4.2.2 Assessments for continuing care residents
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4.2.3 Reviews of fees
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4.3 What is total assessable income
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4.3.1 What is the total assessable income free area
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4.4 What are counted as assets
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4.4.1 Treatment of principal home
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5 Home Care
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5.1 What is Home Care
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5.2 Veterans' Home Care
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5.3 Home Care Fees
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5.3.1 Basic fee
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5.3.2 Income-tested care fee
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5.3.3 How is the income-tested care fee calculated
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