People on this report are DVA income support pensioners who have fully or partially matched to a DH&FS record that has appeared on the data matching file for the first time. Residential situation does not affect who appears on the listing.
A small number of the people who appear on the report have transferred between facilities and thus have a new record appearing on the file.
A column on the report indicates the method of assessment of each person.
Report C: “New admissions” will be produced on a daily basis.
The new admissions report should be examined to ensure that DVA has been advised of each person's admission to aged care.
Where advice has not yet been received, action will need to be taken in accordance with the procedure outlined in the section Entry to Aged Care to update the person's residential situation and other details. More [5]
That procedure requires that where a person is a member of a couple, the couple be reassessed as illness separated. To assist in identifying residents who are a member of a couple, Current Method Of Assessment (MOA) indicators are included on the report. The method of assessment indicators that correspond to an illness separated assessment are:
Note: a method of assessment for age pension may also apply when DVA takes on payment of these pensions for certain veterans and their partners.
The report also needs to be examined for any cases where rent assistance is still in payment. These cases will have an RA indicator of “Y” showing on the report. Such cases will have their rent assistance manually cancelled when the procedure outlined in the section Entry to Aged Care is applied. More [6]
There may be a few instances where a pensioner is:
In these cases, rent assistance may still be payable to the pensioner. However, co-habitees, residents of facilities not approved and residents who are not receiving Commonwealth Government subsidised care should not appear on the data matching file and thus should not appear on the new admissions report.
Links
[1] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/32814%23comment-form
[2] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/32514%23comment-form
[3] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/32662%23comment-form
[4] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/32517%23comment-form
[5] https://clik.dva.gov.au/csrefpopref2-0
[6] https://clik.dva.gov.au/csrefpopref2-7