Support at Home funding consultation opens
This feedback round focuses on the rules related to subsidies, individual contributions and means testing for older people.
The Government is seeking feedback on the draft rules under the new Act related to funding for the incoming Support at Home program.
This consultation covers Chapter 4 of the Aged Care Bill 2024 – which is about the funding of aged care services.
The 55-page consultation document – Aged Care Bill 2024 Consultation Stage 2a – Funding for Support at Home – covers subsidies, individual contributions and means testing for older people.
Under chapter 7, there are details on subsidies for:
- home support
- assistive technology
- home modifications
- secondary person-centred subsidies for the three above
- compensation payment reductions.
Chapter 8 covers individual fees and contributions and chapter 10 looks at means testing.
This is the second consultation stage on the Rules for the new Aged Care Act. It follows last month’s 41-page service list consultation – which outlined the care and services available to older people under the new laws.
Earlier this month, the Senate committee inquiring into the new Aged Care Act recommended it be passed.
Stakeholders can provide feedback on the this funding consultation through this online form until 6 December.
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This is abuse of the elderly who wish to stay in their own homes .The whole premise of what the home care packages where designed for is being changed and they are no longer fit for purpose .
The capping on lawn mowing and cleaning is ridiculous ,it is already difficult enough to have things we are entitled to approved and this new programme will make it even harder !
You would have to be blind Freddy to see it’s an obvious cost cutting measure ,it has all been done so quietly so most people are totally unaware .I think there should be a vote of no confidence… for pushing through this cruel abusive bill which violates the aging populations needs.
Whoever has come up with these ideas has forgotten the flow on effect with the cost that will follow on to our already overloaded hospital system with more accident/falls at home as people struggle to do things themselves to try and maintain their safety and enable them to stay in their own homes !
I think this is wicked and highlight the fact that this bill has been stealthily passed ,or almost with no input from those who it will effect the most .Nobody in government is listening and no body cares !
Support at home funding consultations do not include the simplified versions. these have been omitted from the consultation process. This makes it very difficult to understand. Therefore it is in direct contrast to the Charter of Age care Rights no. 5 “To be informed about my care and services in a way I can understand.” Ironic that this has occurred in an act which is popported to be consumer centric.