Disability pensioners who are self-funded retirees will generally have their income figure supplied to DH&FS by Centrelink. The exception to this rule is where the person also has qualifying service. In this case DVA will supply their income figure. More [5]
Where a resident who receiving disability pension also receives an income support pension, the rules for assessing the disability pension will be those applied in determining the person's rate of income support.
This means that:
As noted earlier, a special discount is applied to the amount of income assessed by DH&FS for certain ISS recipients. More [8]
Where a resident who receives disability pension is a self-funded retiree, disability pension will be assessed as income - unless they also have qualifying service in which case it will be exempt More [10]
Disability pensioners who also receive service pension may benefit from changes to the payment of rent assistance under the aged care reforms.
Under the disability pension rent test, service pensioners receiving high rates of disability pension currently receive a reduced rate of rent assistance or no rent assistance.
From 1 October 1997 these people may receive the full benefit of paying the lesser daily resident contribution applicable to income support pensioners ($21.10 or $21.52 from 2 April 1998).
Although these people do not receive rent assistance, or receive only partial rent assistance, aged care providers will still receive the full amount of pensioner supplement in respect of their places.
The exception to the above is where the person was in a pre 1 October 1997 variable fee arrangement.
War widow/ers who continue to receive the ceiling rate of ISS ($120.10 per fortnight) after cancellation of rent assistance will not notice its loss (except possibly for tax purposes). They will also receive the full benefit of paying the lesser daily resident contribution applicable to pensioners generally ($21.10 or $21.52 from 2 April 1998).
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[10] https://clik.dva.gov.au/csrefpopref2
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