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C12/1998 AGED CARE REFORMS

  • ENTRY TO AGED CARE
    • Background
    • Procedure
    • New admissions report
  • Departmental Instruction: C12/98
  • Purpose of instruction
  • OVERVIEW OF THE REFORMS
    • Purpose of reforms
    • Requirement to pay accommodation bonds & fees
    • Access to aged care
    • Care categories
    • DVA's involvement in the reforms
  • LEGISLATION & COMMENCEMENTS
    • Passage of Legislation
    • Passage of Principles
    • Commencement of reforms
  • IMPACT ON INCOME SUPPORT POLICY
    • Introduction
    • RENT ASSISTANCE ELIGIBILITY
      • Background
      • Impact on aged care residents
      • Residents still entitled to rent assistance
      • What is an approved facility
      • No Government subsidy payable
      • Exclusion from cancellation
      • Automatic rent assistance cancellation of pre-1 October 1997 residents
      • Manual rent assistance cancellation of pre-1 October 1997 residents
      • New admissions report
      • Certain pensioners will not notice RA cancellation
    • DETAILS & PROCEDURES FOR CANCELLATION OF RENT ASSISTANCE
      • Background
      • Who has had rent assistance cancelled automatically
      • Who needs to have rent assistance cancelled manually
      • Manual RA cancellation procedure
      • Advice issued for once-off payment of RA for payday 25 September 1997
    • INCOME TESTING OF AGED CARE FEES
      • Background
      • Impact on pensioners
      • Impact on self-funded retirees
      • Components of daily fees
      • Commonwealth subsidy payable
      • DVA pays Commonwealth subsidy for certain residents
      • Basic daily resident contribution
      • Basic daily resident contribution for persons who lose pensioner status
      • Difference in contribution offsets loss of rent assistance
      • Resident pays the lesser of income tested fee or Commonwealth subsidy
      • What will be assessed as income?
      • Example - application of income test.
      • Income of couples
      • Maximum rate pensioners will not incur income tested fees
      • Maximum fees payable
      • Ready reckoners
      • Who will be income tested
      • Variable fee hostel residents
      • Blinded pensioners
      • Option not to be income tested
  • VARIABLE FEES PAYABLE BY SOME PRE 1 OCTOBER 1997 HOSTEL RESIDENTS
    • What are variable fees
    • Variable fees Continuation
    • Changes to variable fees
    • Who pays variable fees
    • Who does not pay variable fees
    • How are variable fees calculated
    • Disability pension treatment in relation to variable fees
    • Reduction in Fees from 1 October
  • ASSESSMENT OF DISABILITY PENSIONERS
    • Who will hold their income details
      • Income Support Pensioners
      • Self-funded Retirees
    • How will disability pension be assessed
      • Income Support Pensioners
      • Self-funded retirees
      • Disability pensioners who receive service pension may benefit
      • War widow/ers remaining on ceiling rate ISS may also benefit
  • ASSESSMENT OF SELF-FUNDED RETIREES WITH DISABILITY PENSION AND QUALIFYING SERVICE
    • Exclusion of disability pension from assessment
    • Residents will benefit
    • DVA responsible for income testing
    • Data collection & storage
    • Residential Care Details Screen
  • ASSESSMENT OF WAR WIDOW/ERS
    • Background
    • Assessment of War Widow/ers pension
    • Purpose of the deduction
    • Ready reckoners
    • Formula for the deduction
    • Example - single war widow in aged care
    • Example - partnered war widow in aged care
  • ENTITLEMENT OF PENSIONERS IN RESPITE CARE
    • Background
    • Entitlement of pensioners in respite care prior to 1 October 1997
    • Rent assistance no longer payable
    • Entitlement to single rate unaffected
    • Entry to permanent Care
    • Respite care residents not income tested
  • DATA MATCHING
    • What does data matching do
    • How is the data matching performed
    • How does the process operate
    • Unmatched pensioners
    • Income figure included on file
    • Other functions of the data file
  • CENTRELINK DATA COLLECTION
    • Requirement to collect income data from self-funded retirees
    • Numbers of self-funded retirees
    • What happens once a systems record has been established
    • Treatment of new entrants to aged care
  • DATA MATCHING REPORTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE
    • Reports generated by data match
    • Report A
      • Report A: Clients fully or partially matched who have appropriate residential situation.
      • Significance of Report A
      • Actions arising from Report A
    • Report B
      • Report B: Clients fully or partially matched who do not have appropriate residential situation
      • Actions arising from Report B
    • Report C
      • Report C: New admissions
      • Significance of Report C
      • Actions arising from Report C
    • Report D
      • Report D: Clients discharged
      • Significance of Report D
      • Actions arising from Report D
    • Report E
      • Report E: Clients who have a duplicate
      • Significance of Report E
      • Actions arising from Report E
  • PENSION ASSESSMENT OF ACCOMMODATION BONDS
    • Background
    • Definition of an accommodation bond
    • DVA not involved in calculating bonds
    • Residents exempt from paying a bond
    • Option for paying bond
    • Only new entrants pay bond
    • Income test assessment of accommodation bonds
    • Review of income tested cases
    • Asset test assessment of accommodation bonds
    • Example assessment of accommodation bond draw down
    • Review of assets tested cases
    • Asset assessment of pensioners in aged care prior to 1 October 1997
    • Transfer of pre 1 October 1997 residents to new rules
    • Example - transfer to new rules advantageous
    • Cutoff of pensioner supplement at ten times age pension rate
    • Bond payable & assessed once only
    • Amount of bond agreed in writing within 7 days
    • Transfer and refund of bond
    • Minimum retention amount
    • Entry fee agreed but not paid prior to 1 October 1997
  • PRE 1 OCTOBER 1997 ENTRANTS - ASSESSMENT UNDER ACCOMMODATION BOND RULES
    • Background
    • Procedure
  • HOMEOWNERSHIP STATUS
    • Background
    • Assessment prior to 1 October 1997
    • Assessment after 1 October
    • Transfer to new rules - treatment of existing 2 year exemption
  • CHANGES TO RESIDENTIAL SITUATION SCREEN
    • Summary of changes
    • Image of screen
    • Operation of the accommodation bond field
    • Access to field
    • Edits/Warnings
  • NEW RESIDENTIAL CARE SEARCH SCREEN
    • Purpose of screen
    • Image of screen
    • Access to screen
    • Operation of screen
  • NEW RESIDENTIAL CARE DETAILS SCREEN
    • Purpose of screen
    • Image of screen
    • Access to screen
    • Operation of screen
  • OTHER SYSTEMS CHANGES
    • Impacted Systems/Screens
  • DEPARTURE FROM AGED CARE
    • Background
    • Bereavement Processing
    • Admission to hospital
    • Nursing home patient in a hospital
    • Return home
    • Return to family
    • Clients discharged report
  • PERSON MOVES BETWEEN FACILITIES
    • Background
    • Amount paid assessed as accommodation bond
    • Amount paid assessed as entry contribution
  • PERSON ADVISES OF CHANGE TO INCOME OR ASSETS
    • Income support pensioners
    • Self-funded retirees with disability pension and qualifying service
    • Procedure
  • REVIEW AND APPEAL RIGHTS OF RESIDENT
    • Aged care residents DVA is responsible for
    • Reasons for appeal relating to aged care fees
    • Appeal procedure
    • Requests for further information
    • Time limit for decision on appeal
    • Actioning of successful appeals
  • ACTIONING OF RETROSPECTIVE INCOME ADJUSTMENTS
    • No provision for automatic processing of retrospective payments
    • Priority to cases involving income reductions.
    • Manual notification of retrospective income adjustment
    • Procedure
  • ADVICES
    • Advices generated by automatic cancellation run
    • Advice issued for once-off payment of RA for payday 25 September 1997
    • Advice of rent assistance cancellation after 1 October 1997
    • Assessed assets advices
    • Additional wording
    • Advice of change of income -pension rate varies
    • Advice of change of income-pension rate doesn't vary
    • Advice of change of income -self funded retiree
  • SOURCES OF FURTHER INFORMATION
    • DH&FS free information line
    • Contact Officers
    • DH&FS fact sheets
    • DH&FS consumer information kits
    • DH&FS Residential Care Manual
    • Aged care fee ready reckoners
  • ATTACHMENT A - CALCULATING IF ACCOMMODATION BONDS PAYABLE
    • Purpose of attachment
    • Residents exempt from paying a bond
    • Concessional residents
    • What is an asset in calculating an accommodation bond
    • Calculating amount of accommodation bond
    • Exemption of home
    • Assisted residents
    • Residents in hardship
    • Example bond calculation - single non-homeowner
    • Example bond calculation - partnered homeowner
    • Option for paying bond
    • Only new entrants pay bond
    • Bond payable & assessed once only
    • Amount of bond agreed in writing within 7 days
    • Transfer and refund of bond
    • Minimum retention amount
    • ATTACHMENT B - FORM FOR ATTACHMENT TO QS CLAIM FORM
  • ATTACHMENT C - EXAMPLE LETTER ADVISING AGED CARE RESIDENTOF SUCESSFUL QUALIFYING SERVICE CLAIM
  • ATTACHMENT D - FAX ADVISING CENTRELINK OF QUALIFYING SERVICE REJECTION
  • ATTACHMENT E - EXAMPLE LETTER ADVISING RESIDENT OF UNSUCCESSFUL QUALIFYING SERVICE CLAIM
  • ATTACHMENT F - DVA INCOME SUPPORT CONTACT OFFICERS
  • ATTACHMENT G - SUMMARY OF DAILY FEES (post 2 April 1998 increase)
  • Attachment I - Aged Care income support Questions & Answers

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