Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00053:reg:10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00053
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 10
Character Range: 15993–17123

10  Basic subsidy amount for day on or after date of effect of ACFI classification—care recipients whose RCS classification ceased to have effect on or after 20 March 2008
 (1) This section applies to a care recipient on a day if:
 (a) the care recipient had an RCS classification before the day; and
 (b) the care recipient's most recent RCS classification ceased to have effect on or after 20 March 2008; and
 (c) the care recipient has an ACFI classification that is in effect on the day.
Note: For when a classification of a care recipient takes effect, see Division 26 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
 (2) The basic subsidy amount for the day for the care recipient is:
 (a) if the ACFI amount for the care recipient is at least $15 more than the RCS amount for the care recipient—the ACFI amount for the care recipient; or
 (b) in any other case—the RCS amount for the care recipient.
 (3) The RCS amount, for a care recipient, is the amount specified in the item of the following table that relates to the care recipient's most recent expired RCS classification.

RCS amounts
Item         RCS classification      RCS amount ($)