2.6 Travel

The attendant care provisions cannot be used to fund the costs of an attendant carer travelling with a veteran. This is because travel and accommodation costs do not fit the definition of compensation for attendant care services. 

Case law in Wilby v Comcare informs the policy outlined in section 6.10 of the Rehabilitation Policy Library. This enables payment of the travel and accommodation costs of professionally qualified attendant carers accompanying a veteran, in need of 24-hour care, to attend approved psychosocial rehabilitation activities. Payment is authorised via a rehabilitation plan. 

The policy regarding travel costs for people accompanying a veteran (an attendant in the literal sense) to approved treatment can be found in section 9.1.2.8 of the MRCA Policy Manual.