Aged Care (Community Care Subsidy Amount) Determination 2009 (No. 1) (Cth)
Aged Care (Community Care Subsidy Amount) Determination 2009 (No. 1)
Aged Care Act 1997
I, JUSTINE ELLIOT, Minister for Ageing, make this Determination under
subsection 48-1(3) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated June 11th 2009
JUSTINE ELLIOT
Minister for Ageing
Name of Determination
This Determination is the Aged Care (Community Care Subsidy Amount) Determination 2009 (No. 1).
Commencement
This Determination commences on 1 July 2009.
Revocation
The Aged Care Act 1997 – Determination of the amount of Community Care Subsidy under subsection 48-1(3) made on 16 June 2008, also known as ACA Ch.3 No. 18/2008 and F2008L02235, is revoked.
Definitions
In this Determination:
ARIA score, in relation to a location, means the score given to that location under the document titled ‘Viability Funding — ARIA scores for locations as at 30 July 1999, published by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
Community Care Subsidy
The amount of community care subsidy payable in respect of a day for a care recipient receiving community care is the sum of the following amounts:
a.The base subsidy is $35.41; and
b.the amount in column 3 of the following table that corresponds to the ARIA score for the geographical location at which the care recipient resides:
| Col. 1 Item | Col. 2 ARIA score | Col. 3 Additional daily amount of community care subsidy |
| 1 | Less than 3.52 | $0.00 |
| 2 | More than 3.51 but less than 4.67 | $2.77 |
| 3 | More than 4.66 but less than 5.81 | $3.34 |
| 4 | More than 5.80 but less than 7.45 | $4.67 |
| 5 | More than 7.44 but less than 9.09 | $5.61 |
| 6 | More than 9.08 but less than 10.55 | $7.85 |
| 7 | More than 10.54 | $9.41 |
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