Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00076:reg:56
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00076
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 56
Character Range: 62439–63996

56  Eligibility for hardship supplement—classes of care recipients
 (1) For paragraph 44‑30(2)(a) of the Transitional Provisions Act, the classes of care recipients for whom paying the maximum daily amount of resident fees (worked out under section 58‑2 of the Transitional Provisions Act) would cause financial hardship are the following:
 (a) care recipients who:
 (i) are pre‑2008 reform residents; and
 (ii) entered an aged care service after 30 September 1997; and
 (iii) do not receive an income support payment; and
 (iv) have an ordinary fortnightly income on a day that is more than the ordinary fortnightly income that, if received by the care recipient, has the effect that he or she is not entitled to an income support payment, and is less than $1 774.42;
 (b) care recipients who:
 (i) on 30 September 1997, occupied an approved place in an aged care service and received an income support payment; and
 (ii) on 1 October 1997—did not receive an income support payment;
 (c) care recipients who:
 (i) on 30 September 1997, occupied a place in a hostel approved under the Aged or Disabled Persons Care Act 1954, as in force at that date; and
 (ii) have not entered an aged care service that was approved, before 1 October 1997, as a nursing home under the National Health Act 1953.
 (2) For paragraph (1)(a), a care recipient's ordinary fortnightly income on a day is the amount that would be his or her ordinary income on that day according to the ordinary income test in Pension Rate Calculator A in section 1064 of the Social Security Act.