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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

General provisions

3: Purpose of this Act

You could also call this:

"This Act helps older people know what they pay for long-term care and support."

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The purpose of this Act is to help you understand when older people must pay for their own long-term residential care. You can find out if a funder must contribute towards the cost of your long-term residential care. The Act also helps you apply for a means assessment to see how much a funder must contribute. The Act says you do not have to pay more than the maximum contribution for your long-term residential care. This maximum amount is specified on an Internet site and in the Gazette. The Act also assesses how much you must pay for home-based disability support services. The Act ensures that financial support is provided to you, taking into account that you should use your own resources before seeking help under this Act, when appropriate.

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"What this law is about: rules for paying for care and disability support at home or in residences."

Part 1General provisions

3Purpose of this Act

  1. The purpose of this Act is to—

  2. specify the circumstances in which certain older persons are required to pay for their own long-term residential care; and
    1. specify the circumstances in which a funder must contribute towards the cost of those persons’ long-term residential care; and
      1. provide for those persons to apply for a means assessment to determine if, and how much, a funder must contribute towards the cost of their long-term residential care; and
        1. provide that those persons are not required to pay more than the maximum contribution (which amount is specified by written notice published on an Internet site and notified in the Gazette) for their long-term residential care, if that care is provided by a provider who has a contract with a funder to provide long-term residential care to older persons; and
          1. provide for the assessment of the amount a person is required to pay towards the cost of home-based disability support services supplied to that person; and
            1. ensure that financial support (that is, a funder’s contribution to the cost of long-term residential care, or towards the cost of home-based disability support services) provided under this Act is provided to persons taking into account that, where appropriate, they should use the resources available to them before seeking financial support under this Act.

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