Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00076:reg:46
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00076
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 46
Character Range: 49397–51036

46  Classes of people for whom daily income tested reduction is taken to be zero
 (1) For paragraph 44‑22(1)(c) of the Transitional Provisions Act, the classes of people for whom the daily income tested reduction is taken to be zero are the following:
 (a) care recipients who leave a residential care service (without entering another residential care service), or who die, before the approved provider of the service has been informed of the care recipient's daily income tested reduction (if any);
 (b) care recipients who are not, within 6 months of entry to a residential care service, informed of the care recipient's daily income tested reduction (if any);
 (c) care recipients who have one or more dependent children;
 (d) care recipients who are described in paragraph 85(4)(b) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (which describes former prisoners of war);
 (e) care recipients who:
 (i) are provided with residential care at any time after 30 September 1997 and before 1 March 1998; or
 (ii) are, before 1 March 1998, on leave, as described in subsection 42‑3(3) of the Transitional Provisions Act;
 (f) care recipients for whom the daily income tested reduction is worked out as less than $1.
 (2) If a care recipient is included in the class of persons referred to in paragraph (1)(b), the care recipient is included in that class from the day the care recipient enters the residential care service until the day the care recipient is informed of the care recipient's daily income tested reduction.
 (3) This section does not apply to a care recipient at a time when the care recipient is being provided with respite care.